Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Canada has launched a two-month, high-tech mission spanning the seas as far as Japan to tackle illegal fishing in international waters of the North Pacific.

If the feds want to look like they're doing something on ocean noise while not taking any of the hard steps that requires, they could do worse than announcing a plan in which nine of the 20 “action items” involve some variation on “think really hard about it.”

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.

Canada's East Coast regulations are geared to limit corporate control and protect coastal fishing communities while West Coast harvesters flounder under a different set of rules.

Marine scientist Kieran Cox calls it "probably the most pervasive, unregulated pollutant in Canada and globally."

Fisheries and Oceans Canada hasn’t got the right tools or resources in place to monitor and protect vital commercial fisheries despite promising to rectify the problem seven years ago, a federal audit released Tuesday shows. 

From great white sharks around Quebec's Îles-de-la-Madeleine to lobsters conquering new territory, oceanographers say the warming of the Gulf of St. Lawrence is having an impact on the creatures that live in its unique ecosystem.

Five years ago today, the orca mother J35 — also known as Tahlequah — gave birth to a calf who died shortly thereafter. In response, Tahlequah proceeded to carry her daughter’s body across the Salish Sea for 17 days, a 1600 kilometre journey of mourning that went viral at the time.

Fisheries enforcement officers are taking an unnecessary and heavy-handed approach over what appears to be a bureaucratic error caused the Department of Fisheries’ own licensing branch, said Sonia Strobel, CEO of Skipper Otto community-supported fishery. 

“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.

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.

A new research initiative is working on a national assessment of the “blue carbon” storage capacity of Canada’s salt marshes, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to fight against climate change.

Critics contend the federal government's assessment of the cruise sector's compliance with new pollution guidelines isn't transparent, and the proposed rules don't address the biggest source of wastewater.

Coming Tuesday, Aug. 9 on iTunes: The Salmon People builds on the success of CNO’s 2021 debut podcast series, Race Against Climate Change, which earned a nomination for Best Climate Solutions Reporting from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. This new collaborative podcast cements CNO’s commitment to telling impactful and creative stories about the climate.