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DFO shuts down baby eel fishery in Maritimes amid poaching, safety concerns
In this May 25, 2017, file photo, baby eels swim in a plastic bag after being caught near Brewer, Maine. Federal fisheries officials have announced the immediate closure of the lucrative baby eel fishery in the Maritimes amid growing concerns of illegal poaching.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Robert F. Bukaty
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B.C. salmon farming industry welcomes consultation after years of ‘ad hoc’ talks
An Atlantic salmon is seen during a Department of Fisheries and Oceans fish health audit at the Okisollo fish farm near Campbell River, B.C. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. The executive director of British Columbia's salmon farmers association says a formalized consultation process for the future of the industry is welcome after several years of "ad hoc" discussions stemming from the Liberal government's pledge in 2019 to end open-net pen salmon aquaculture off B.C.'s coast. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Jonathan Hayward
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Why a federal salmon study that found viruses at B.C. fish farms took 10 years to be released
Spawning sockeye salmon, a species of pacific salmon, are seen making their way up the Adams River in Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park near Chase, B.C., on Oct. 14, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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First Nation chiefs in N.B. say Fisheries Department ignoring fishing rights
Lobster boats head to drop their traps from Digby, N.S., on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Seal found in P.E.I. neighbourhood gets ride in police cruiser
A seal is shown in the back of a police cruiser after being rescued in Charlottetown, P.E.I., in this recent handout photo. The seal was wandering the streets of Charlottetown, P.E.I., Sunday morning, prompting a concerned neighbour to call police. Though eyewitnesses say the seal did its best to resist arrest, police got it into the back of a cruiser and, in consultation with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, released it back into the water where it belongs. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Charlottetown Police Services
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Is politics getting in the way of rebuilding a sustainable fishery in Newfoundland?
Fishing boats tied up at Fort Amherst, St. John's NL on Thursday, February 11, 2021. Photo by Paul Daly for the Globe and Mail
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Globe Climate: The federal climate plan is belated, bold and brash all at the same time
The canopy of tree branches in the Dominion Arboretum is seen above Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he speaks about the government's updated climate change plan in Ottawa, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Beached bowhead whales in western Nunavut might point to killer whale attacks
A bowhead whale carcass is shown on a beach roughly 60 kilometres outside Kugaaruk, Nunavut, in a handout photo.
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Morning Update: Scientist at DFO says Ottawa is too beholden to fish farm industry
Aquatic science biologist Shawn Stenhouse guides his boat during a Department of Fisheries and Oceans fish health audit at the Okisollo fish farm near Campbell River, B.C. Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Members of the DFO routinely visit farms surrounding British Columbia to make sure that the health of the salmon populations in fish farms is up to standard. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Jonathan Hayward
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Scientist at Department of Fisheries and Oceans says Ottawa is too beholden to fish farm industry
The Okisollo fish farm is pictured during a DFO fish health audit near Campbell River, B.C., on Oct. 31, 2018.
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One of three entangled humpback whales off B.C. coast free of fishing gear
A humpback whale is seen just outside of Hartley Bay along the Great Bear Rainforest, B.C. on September 17, 2013.
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Ottawa announces ‘unprecedented action’ to protect Fraser River chinook salmon
A 24-pound chinook salmon sits on the dock in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday August 18, 2012.
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Rock slide caused ‘almost complete loss’ of early salmon runs at Fraser River
Workers are seen on the cliff at the site of a massive rock slide on the Fraser River near Big Bar, west of Clinton, B.C., on July 24, 2019. Officials with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans say early arriving runs of Stuart and Chinook salmon were nearly wiped out after reaching the massive landslide along British Columbia's Fraser River last year.
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Experts worry about humpback whale’s safety in Montreal waters
A humpback whale swims in the Old Port on Montreal, on June 3, 2020. This is the first time a whale has been seen in the port.
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Parts of 'salmon cannon’ arrive soon at Fraser River landslide
Stuart LePage, of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, sprints to place a salmon in a vessel to be lifted by a helicopter and transported up the Fraser River past a massive rock slide near Big Bar, west of Clinton, B.C., on July 24, 2019. Parts of a pneumatic fish pump dubbed the salmon cannon have arrived at the site of a massive landslide along British Columbia's Fraser River, where Fisheries and Oceans Canada expects some salmon to begin arriving soon.
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DFO closes fishing area after endangered right whales spotted in Gulf of St. Lawrence
A North Atlantic right whale is seen in a March 28, 2018, file photo.
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Area of Gulf of St. Lawrence temporarily closed to fixed-gear fisheries after first right whales of season spotted
A North Atlantic right whale is seen in a March 28, 2018, file photo.
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Salmon cannon to help fish migrate past landslide
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says a salmon cannon will help fish migrate past a landslide on British Columbia’s Fraser River.
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Study of Arctic Ocean shows top of the world changing
The midnight sun shines over the ice covered waters near Resolute bay at 1:30am as seen from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent Saturday, July 12, 2008. The top of the world is turning upside down, according to the first overall assessment of Canada's Arctic Ocean. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Herring roe fishing opens despite dire warnings about the health of the fishery
The industrial herring roe fishery in the Strait of Georgia (SOG) opened this morning at 6:30am near Comox, B.C., despite extremely low population estimates. A quota of 2,024 tons has been set for seine fishing out of a total 9,240 tons for both seine and gillnet fishing in the SOG. The gillnet fishery is expected to open as well.
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Almost $150-million in Liberals’ vaunted oceans-protection funding not spent
Orca whales play in Chatham Sound near Prince Rupert, B.C., on June, 22, 2018. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says nearly $150-million of funds for a program designed to protect coasts and waterways has not been spent.
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Court rules RCMP not to blame for losses in 2003 New Brunswick fishery riot
RCMP officers guard a wharf in Shippagan, N.B., in a May 6, 2003, file photo.
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Two more right whales found dead off East Coast, bringing total to eight this year
In this file photo taken on April 13, 2019, a North Atlantic right whale swims in the waters of Cape Cod Bay near Provincetown, Mass.
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Researchers encouraged by return of killer whales to Salish Sea, but say food source must be replenished
FILE - In this July 31, 2015 file photo, an orca leaps out of the water near a whale watching boat in the Salish Sea in the San Juan Islands, Wash. In an unprecedented absence, the endangered orcas have not been here at all this summer, except for one visit by J pod, in a brief lap around San Juan Island one day in early May. They immediately left, and no one's seen any of the members of J, K or L pod since. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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Ships must keep 400-metre distance as part of new rules to protect killer whales
Southern Resident killer whale J50 and her mother, J16, swim off the west coast of Vancouver Island near Port Renfrew, B.C., on Aug. 7, 2018.
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Species plans lacking Indigenous input despite legal requirements
A wild caribou looks on near The Meadowbank Gold Mine located in the Nunavut Territory of Canada in 2009.
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Company awarded clam-fishing quota can’t buy boat until license is issued, First Nation chief says
Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc fields questions in St. John's, N.L., on Sept. 12, 2017.