chinook salmon

An expert on British Columbia's salmon populations says the massive landslide that blocked off part of Canada's largest sockeye salmon run has created an unprecedented situation potentially putting the already struggling fish at even more risk.

The southern resident killer whale known as Tahlequah captured global sympathy in 2018 when she pushed the body of her dead calf for more than two weeks in waters off British Columbia's south coast.

Canada and the United States are suspending all fishing for Canadian-origin Yukon River chinook salmon for seven years in an attempt to protect the dwindling species.

While some kelp canopies in B.C.'s southern waters are withering with climate change, certain pockets are proving resilient and offer insights for the conservation and restoration of these critical hot spots of marine life.

Victoria and Prince Rupert harbours are the top toxic hot spots, with sediment research unearthing a mix of worrisome metals and chemical pollutants harmful to endangered chinook salmon and southern resident killer whales.

The collapse of wild salmon is causing a current of pain that spans the length of the Yukon River, from its mouth at Alaska’s Bering Sea to the headwater’s in Canada’s Yukon territory 3,000 kilometres away.

Researchers say British Columbia's southern resident killer whales are not only threatened by the decline of the overall salmon population but also the reduction in high-quality fatty salmon, the whales' preferred meal.

The federal government is biased against listing commercially valuable fish as species at risk and needing protection, environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco said in a new audit published on Tuesday, October 4, 2022.

By tapping into a nails-on-a-chalkboard-like reflex, scientists are hopeful they’ve found a way to keep seals away from endangered salmon.

A fishing boat that sank with nearly 10,000 litres of fuel on board near the Canada−U.S. marine border went down in one of the worst possible places for endangered orcas, an ocean pollutants expert says.

A plan to build a new shipping container terminal the size of nearly 144 football fields at a major Metro Vancouver port has sparked a rival proposal along with concerns for endangered orcas and the salmon they depend on.

The federal government has extended its deadline for public feedback on a proposed Metro Vancouver shipping terminal after outcry from scientists, MPs and the City of Delta.

A new study appears to debunk the prevailing hypothesis that endangered southern resident killer whales are in decline due to plummeting chinook salmon stocks in the Salish Sea during the summer months.

Coextinction, set to premiere in Canada at the Vancouver International Film Festival, shows how the survival of southern resident killer whales is tied to the collapse of wild salmon populations and injustice against Indigenous peoples displaced as environmental stewards.

Squeezing out fish stomachs and poking through intestines may be distasteful, but it’s part of a collaborative effort by researchers and recreational fishermen to save endangered salmon and divine shifts to the marine food web as climate change advances.