Fisheries

10/12/21
Author: 
Damian Carrington
A healthy coral reef in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photograph: Tim Lamont/University of Exeter

Dec. 8, 2021

Vibrant soundscape shows Indonesian reef devastated by blast fishing is returning to health

watch and listen here: https://youtu.be/97M2muq9JQc

From whoops to purrs, snaps to grunts, and foghorns to laughs, a cacophony of bizarre fish songs have shown that a coral reef in Indonesia has returned rapidly to health.

25/11/21
Author: 
Stephanie Wood
This past week's B.C. floods have caused extensive damage in the Lower Mainland, including along Highway 11. Experts say governments of all levels need to do more to prepare for climate disasters that are now happening with increasing frequency. Photo: B.C. Ministry of Transportation / Flickr

Nov. 20, 2021

Ninety-six per cent of dikes in the Lower Mainland are not high enough to block extreme floods. Some experts say we have to think beyond concrete

Semá:th (Sumas) First Nation councillor Murray Ned dragged a chair across his front yard to the water’s edge and sat down to take in the lake on Tuesday night. The water sat still under the moonlight. 

22/11/21
Author: 
Patricia Lane
Gitxsan youth Shay Lynn Sampson is doing her part to ensure the Coastal GasLink pipeline never gets built. Photo by Melissa Cox

Nov. 22, 2021

As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Gitxsan youth Shay Lynn Sampson who is doing her part to ensure the Coastal GasLink pipeline never gets built. She was among those arrested in Friday's RCMP raids.

15/10/21
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Southern resident killer whale Scarlet, or J50, in 2018 displaying "peanut-head" — a head shape indicating the loss of blubber and poor body condition. Photo by Katy Foster / NOAA Fisheries

October 13th 2021

The widespread belief endangered killer whales are starving to death due to a lack of chinook salmon in southern B.C. waters in the summer may be incorrect, a new study suggests.

08/10/21
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
A roadblock preventing Coastal GasLink from accessing a site where it plans to drill under the Morice River, or Wedzin Kwa to the Wet’suwet’en. RCMP have visited the site several times since the camp was created on Sept. 24, making two arrests. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

4 Oct 2021

On the scene where Coastal GasLink’s plan to install pipe under the river bed has been halted for 11 days.

At the turnoff, four workers with Coastal GasLink security gather in orange and yellow vests, their voices edged with frustration as they talk above four idling pickup trucks that release a haze of exhaust into the early morning light.

Another pickup faces off against the group, blocking access to the rough and muddy spur road that leads to the pipeline worksite.

06/10/21
Author: 
Matt Simmons, Photography by Ryan Dickie
Josh Rush, member of Wilp Wii Litsxw, fishes at the Lax An Zok fish camp on the banks of the Meziadin River in northwest B.C

Sept. 26, 2021

After waiting for years for support from the provincial government and in the face of declining salmon stock, the Gitanyow are independently forging ahead with new protections under traditional law and custom for some 54,000 hectares of land and water, which are threatened by potential mining projects

On a late August afternoon, under cloudy skies that threatened rain, Gitanyow hereditary chiefs gathered at the Lax An Zok fish camp on the banks of the Meziadin River in northwest B.C. to sign a unilateral declaration. 

04/10/21
Author: 
The Associated Press

Oct 04, 2021

Ship's anchor among possible causes of leak, says head of Amplify Energy, which operates pipeline

A person stands near the shore at Huntington State Beach in California on Sunday after a major oil spill that sent an estimated 572,800 litres of heavy crude into the ocean waters. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

27/09/21
Author: 
Sustainable Human
whale breaching

[Interesting. 5 min.]

Explore how whales change climate, engineer the ecosystem, create conditions that spawn plankton, and keep our oceans healthy in this beautiful story by George Monbiot.

watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M18HxXve3CM.

02/09/21
Author: 
Olivia Ebertz
“I had to go 100 miles north up just to get my subsistence needs,” said Herman Hootch. CREDIT OLIVIA EBERTZ / KYUK

Aug. 13, 2021

This has been the worst salmon fishing season on record for the Yukon River. King salmon, a regional favorite, have returned in low numbers for years, but now a typically stable species, chum salmon, has also collapsed. Subsistence fishing on the lower Yukon River for both species is closed, and residents who usually depend heavily on the fish are pivoting towards other ways to get meat. 

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