fishing

Widespread bleaching of reefs is devastating delicate ecosystems

About 44 per cent of migratory species worldwide are declining in population, the report found. More than a fifth of the nearly 1,200 species monitored by the UN are threatened with extinction.

A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations — and who gets access to them.

The whale safe gear lending program, the first of its kind in Canada, started in 2022 and is now in its second year of operation.

New research, co-authored by UBC fish researcher William Cheung, shows climate change will shift seafood populations to make nutrients up to 15 per cent less available by 2100, relative to 2000 levels.

When angler Shane Westle finds a pile of river fish stranded on land, he sparks an effort to help fish travel between the Kootenay River and one of its tributaries.

After years of nuclear detonations in the Marshall Islands, fallout and forced relocations of communities began a ripple effect: Many Indigenous Marshallese people who had relied on subsistence farming and fishing for 4,000 years suddenly couldn’t trust the safety of their food, becoming reliant on imported and processed foods. And those were the lucky ones.

Fishers there are being asked to avoid fishing during the hottest part of the day when water temperatures alone harm fish health. One expert says even without fishing, intense heat might already be pushing the fish out of their habitat.

Pierre Grenier says that ever since the 2013 train derailment in Lac-Megantic, Que., spilled 100,000 litres of crude oil into the Chaudière River, the fishing hasn't been the same.

When the gas rig arrived off the coast of Saint-Louis, residents of this seaside Senegalese town found reason to hope. Officials promised the drilling would soon bring thousands of jobs and diversification of the economy.

Heather House studies full-time through McGill University’s distance education program, and when she is not immersed in books, she is raising her eight children with her husband in Chisasibi, the northernmost community in Quebec that is accessible by road.

Membertou First Nation, located in Unama'ki, has partnered with Oceans North, a marine focused charity, to switch the lobster boats off fossil fuels.

Colourful fishing stages bobbed in the water by Rose Blanche-Harbour Le Cou Tuesday as Cliff Bateman watched from his property.

Commercial salmon fishers and environmentalists are crying foul — for opposite reasons — after U.S. fisheries officials let American fishers hit the water while the Canadian government kept their counterparts ashore.

Zebra and quagga mussels are small freshwater mussels originally from the Black and Caspian seas. The invasive mussels can transform aquatic food chains and grow in thick carpets that can clog farm irrigation lines, hydropower dams and municipal waterworks. Keeping them out of B.C. is a full-time job for two dedicated dogs.