Editor’s note: The Orcas that visit Cortes, Quadra and the Redonda Islands are mostly members of the northern resident pod, but there also get visitors from the southern pod.
Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Salish Sea is one ecosystem but Canada and the US are playing by different rules when it comes to protecting threatened whales, experts warn.
Continue reading Canadian and US regulations are at odds in the Salish Sea, and whales are caught in the middleBy Melissa Renwick, Ha-Shilth-Sa, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Pacific Salmon Treaty (PST) is under fire following a report suggesting that Alaskan fisheries are impacting struggling salmon populations by intercepting a significant number of B.C.-bound fish.
Continue reading Pacific Salmon Treaty fails to conserve B.C. fish, say advocatesNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Tensions between countries are likely to rise with the global temperature as valuable fish stocks fleeing warmer waters cross into different national boundaries, a new study suggests.
The climate crisis will push 45 per cent of the world’s shared fish stocks away from historic habitat ranges and migration routes by 2100, posing a challenge for international co-operation, said senior author William Cheung.
Continue reading Climate change could spark international fish fightsNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Commercial fish harvesters in southeast Alaska are netting significant amounts of threatened B.C. salmon even though the bulk of Canada’s Pacific fleet is stranded on shore to conserve plummeting stocks, a new study suggests.
Some of B.C.’s largest salmon runs navigate the waters of the Alaskan Panhandle just north of B.C. as they return to Canadian rivers to spawn, said Greg Taylor, fisheries expert and one of the authors of a new technical report for the Watershed Watch Salmon Society and SkeenaWild Conservation Trust.
Continue reading Alaskan commercial fishery ‘plundering’ threatened B.C. salmon
