Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Right whale numbers have steadily decreased since 2011, when the population was at around 481. Now, there are approximately 350. 

Canada and its international partners have to commit to weaning themselves off unnecessary plastics and aggressively creating a global circular economy to curb marine plastic pollution at the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon.

Little more than 20 years ago, the Campbell River estuary was an industrial wasteland. Its restoration illustrates what can be achieved as governments and conservation groups undertake a massive push to save the critical ecosystems and salmon in a race against climate change. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

The key mystery remains of why PRV causes disease and mortality in farmed Atlantic salmon in Norway or other regions differently than it does on the West Coast.

Commercial salmon fishing will be closed in most of coastal B.C., the federal government announced Tuesday.

Despite releasing its wild salmon policy 15 years ago, Fisheries and Oceans Canada has made little headway in stabilizing the decline of wild salmon, much less restoring at-risk populations, a parliamentary committee concluded this week.

Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut is preparing for the arrival of five Beluga whales from Canada after navigating approval processes on both sides of the U.S. border and overcoming legal challenges from environmental groups.

Hundreds of B.C. spot prawn harvesters might soon be out of work thanks to a recent decision by Fisheries and Oceans Canada that makes selling spot prawns frozen at sea illegal.

Canada’s longest coastline in the world, along with the U.S.’s largest exclusive economic zone, makes for an ocean-based North American blue economy powerhouse of the future, writes Kate Moran.

An ambitious project to map and monitor sea kelp forests along the entire B.C. coast is afoot, and scientists are using seemly disparate tools — both ancient and modern — to do it.

The Canadian Coast Guard will report whale sightings in real time from a new marine mammal desk established to protect endangered southern resident killer whales and other cetaceans in British Columbia waters.