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Days before the federal government is set to make a decision on a $6.8-billion oil project off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, environmentalists are poking holes in the company's environmental claims and urging Ottawa to reject the proposal. 

The federal government is committed to advancing reconciliation with Indigenous communities and building regenerative and prosperous fisheries in B.C. with $11.8 million in funding through the Pacific Integrated Commercial Fisheries Initiative, said federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray. 

Vancouver Island MPs are calling for improved ocean protection and spill response as more than 100 shipping containers are still unaccounted for after the MV Zim Kingston cargo spill.

West Coast shellfish producers are going to have to absorb the costs of meeting new environmental regulations and change their farming practices as society's tolerance for marine debris plummets, says the grower's association president.

Independent harvesters are thrilled after federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray revamped new guidelines for the B.C. spot prawn fishing sector. 

Commercial fishers in southeast Alaska are netting large numbers of threatened B.C. salmon while most of Canada’s Pacific fleet is shorebound to save plummeting stocks, a new study indicates.

A notorious West Coast poacher is banned from stepping aboard a fishing vessel for life after he was convicted of harvesting crabs under the cover of darkness and leading enforcement officers on a dangerous high-speed pursuit.

Federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray is cutting the Pacific commercial herring fishing allocation to 10 per cent, down from 20 per cent last year, citing the need to protect the valuable forage fish and threatened salmon.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is revisiting new prawn fishing regulations that small harvesters say will give advantages to big companies exporting products overseas, create more plastic garbage, and will limit local consumers' access to fresh seafood caught by community fishers.  

Open-net salmon farm opponents want the new federal fisheries minister to new deny any aquaculture applications to expand production in B.C. waters

A number of sites of exceptional biodiversity — well-known to the region's First Nations but previously undocumented by science — have been identified along B.C.'s central coast and should be protected, a joint study suggests.

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.

About a fifth of fish harvested from the world's oceans — including over half of Canada's $3.6-billion annual catch — is being given away for a pittance to a handful of companies and investors, a new study warns. 

Salmon stocks on the Fraser have tumbled in the past decade, leading Fisheries and Oceans Canada to limit Indigenous food fisheries on the river, even as some recreational fishing is allowed.

B.C. conservationists are wondering if Fisheries and Oceans Canada is going rogue and defying ministry orders by opening a commercial fishery on the Fraser River when endangered salmon stocks are collapsing.