DFO

First Nations are warning Fisheries and Oceans Canada that final decisions around contentious fish farms in the Discovery Islands will have to respect Indigenous rights.

DFO and conservation groups are sounding the call on the B.C. coast – especially the waters off east Vancouver Island – to be on the look out for the highly invasive European green crab.

Federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Bernadette Jordan announced Wednesday that the Fish Harvester Benefit and Grant Program will open for applications from Aug. 24 to Sept. 21.

Three cases of entangled humpback whales have been reported within the past four days, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has confirmed.

"Slipper skippers', who have never fished a day in their lives, are leasing quota to commercial fishers who can see 85 per cent of their catch going to quota and licensing fees,” Gord Johns, NDP Fisheries critic on who benefits from B.C's fish and what needs to change.

Sea lice from open-net fish farms are contributing to the massive decline in wild salmon stocks, the First Nations Leadership Council stated Thursday, calling on the B.C. and federal government to immediately transition to closed-containment salmon farms.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada says it has sighted another dead endangered right whale drifting off the Gaspé Peninsula, bringing the total number of deaths in Canadian waters this year to six.

A sixth dead grey whale has been found off the coast of British Columbia amid an unusually fatal year for the animals.

A slow and steady approach to rebuilding the northern cod stock could see employment in the crucial fishery skyrocket in just over a decade, according to a new study.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says a grey whale and its calf that became stranded in Boundary Bay, south of Vancouver are now headed back out to open sea.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has been considering an “emergency” warning from scientists about an endangered species for more than a year in a case that could have serious implications for the proposed construction of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project.

Kinder Morgan's Canadian subsidiary, Trans Mountain, says a "calculation error" was the cause of mistakes in a report that failed to identify environmental violations committed during recent construction activity in May. The violations of the federal Fisheries Act have been an ongoing problem at the Westridge Marine Terminal in metro Vancouver, National Observer reported on June 12.

Texas-based pipeline operator Kinder Morgan took six days to reply to a warning letter from Canada that demanded an immediate response to the company's violations of an environmental law during construction of its Trans Mountain expansion project, a federal spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

A new fisheries bill requires the minister to take “traditional knowledge of the Indigenous peoples of Canada” into account if it has been provided.

At least 10 endangered North Atlantic right whales have died in Canadian waters since June 7, which is "not an acceptable circumstance," said Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc on Thursday.