Fisheries and Oceans Canada

There will be no provincial charges for a tailings dam collapse in B.C. but the province’s new environment minister says a mining company may still be held responsible through federal laws.

North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered, with only about 525 believed to be alive.

North Atlantic right whales are critically endangered, with about 525 estimated to still be alive.

Jocelyne Dramisino says she made her little cousin watch a hair-raising online video before taking her to a Vancouver-area wharf where a sea lion yanked a young girl off the dock and into the water.

A unique salmon enhancement project on Vancouver Island aims to feed hungry southern resident killer whales by increasing the number of large adult chinook salmon in Juan de Fuca Strait.

The male orca, found in the water off the Sunshine Coast north of Vancouver on Tuesday, also had a hematoma, indicating it was alive for a time after the injury, said a specialist from DFO.

The next step in clean up of a diesel spill in the Seaforth Channel, said Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc, is hopefully to remove the tug from the water.

Julia Baum and Susanna Fuller laughed when asked how they managed to track down evidence for an investigation they recently completed into the state of Canada’s oceans and fisheries.

Caleb Behn, who is from West Moberly First Nation, one of the nations taking the federal government to court, says Trudeau has broken his promise.

A leading ocean conservation group sounded an alarm over the state of Canada’s fishery Thursday in a new report that reveals that less than 25 per cent of the country’s fish stocks

The prime minister made good on his election promise to restore the Vancouver first response station, which was shut down by the Harper government in early 2013.