Federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray is cutting the Pacific commercial herring fishing allocation to 10 per cent, down from 20 per cent last year, citing the need to protect the valuable forage fish and threatened salmon.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is revisiting new prawn fishing regulations that small harvesters say will give advantages to big companies exporting products overseas, create more plastic garbage, and will limit local consumers' access to fresh seafood caught by community fishers.  

NDP MPs are pressing Ottawa to take action to resolve the Indigenous housing crisis and also pass a "Right to Housing" bill for Canadians nationwide.

A Vancouver Island photographer has attracted 43,000 followers on social media by focusing on one curious, intelligent and often pesky member of the corvid family: crows.

A contingent of 30 "elders for old-growth" travelled down pitch black logging roads Thursday to stall road-building and the clear-cutting of forest giants near the Fairy Creek blockades.

At least 50,000 hectares of the at-risk forest identified by the province for logging deferrals — an area four times the size of Vancouver — is already approved for logging, has approvals pending or may already be cut down, says the Wilderness Committee.

Despite the ocean's impressive role in mitigating global warming, ocean-based solutions are largely ignored as a potential game-changer when it comes to formulating Canada’s climate plans.

Open-net salmon farm opponents want the new federal fisheries minister to new deny any aquaculture applications to expand production in B.C. waters

The Haíɫzaqv Nation on B.C.'s isolated central coast is shaping a climate plan that tackles emissions and better reflects the community's values and sacred interdependence with nature in their territory.

B.C. is battening down the hatches as a wave of heavy winds and rain is predicted right behind a recent storm that washed out communities, critical roadways and triggered fatal mudslides.