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Sustainable Marine Energy said the project was undermined by government red tape despite providing ample environmental monitoring data and trying to work with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. DFO says it has “developed a clear regulatory pathway" for the industry.

In the mid-1950s, the fishing industry in modern-day Russia was determined to do something that may seem unusual today: introduce an invasive species in hopes of creating a new fishery. That species was pink salmon, and it's now turning up in Newfoundland and Labrador.

“These things are eating machines, and we don’t even know how big they're gonna get. The question is, ‘What’s the damage to the ecosystem?’” says fishing guide Pat Demeester about the escape of massive farmed rainbow trout into B.C.'s Lois Lake.

The department is being flooded with calls for change after a parliamentary committee examined how the federal agency conducts, interprets and acts on its own science. 

Thirty years after the population collapsed, the Atlantic redfish fishery is poised to reopen, providing a second chance at a sustainable fishery.

Canada is promising to establish 10 new Indigenous-led federal marine protected areas as IMPAC5, a global summit on ocean conservation, kicks off Friday in Vancouver.

Critics and supporters of West Coast fish farms are at odds over a recent Fisheries and Oceans Canada study suggesting sea lice infestations among juvenile wild salmon aren’t strongly tied to aquaculture operations. 

A First Nation and conservationists striving to protect the trove of large orange coral fans are cautiously optimistic that Fisheries and Oceans Canada will put an interim fishing moratorium in place to protect the fragile ecosystem.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is investigating a complaint that Coastal GasLink failed to prevent sediment stirred up by pipeline construction activities from flowing downstream at a construction site on the Lho Kwa (Clore River) in B.C.

It's not clear who are the winners and losers in the future of the commercial salmon fishery as Ottawa transforms an industry once the backbone of the coast. But trends suggest those with the deepest pockets will come out on top, industry experts say.

Fish harvesters are "deeply disappointed" after DFO released the details of its commercial licence buyback plan to protect plummeting Pacific salmon stocks Wednesday.

The honour means The Salmon People, which topped the charts back when it was first released in October, is now featured prominently on Apple’s iTunes page.

A total of 17 coastal First Nations spearheaded a vision for a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) in partnership with the B.C. and federal governments to protect marine ecosystems and biodiversity hot spots stretching from northern Vancouver Island to Alaska.

The federal government is sending contradictory messages around its commitment to transitioning away from open net-pen salmon farms in B.C. by permitting production increases at three aquaculture sites in Clayoquot Sound, say salmon conservation groups.

Pausing Trans Mountain pipeline construction at a Hope, B.C., river crossing would have only increased the risk to salmon later, as they arrive in greater numbers in late August and into September, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) told Canada’s National Observer.