On Friday, May 27, a group of pro-fish farm scientists responded to recent testimonies before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans through an opinion article in the Globe and Mail.
Four of the authors are from British Columbia.
Continue reading Pro Fish farm scientists respond through Globe and Mail
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Pacific salmon are likely exposed to increased risks from pathogens concentrated in fish farms on the West Coast, two new scientific studies indicate.
Continue reading B.C. fish farms cultivate increased risks for wild salmon, new studies show(Click here to access other presentations taken from the Committee.)
In the first of a series of posts gleaned from the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, a top UBC geneticist testifies on DFO’s failure to follow up on the findings of its own scientists and those from the international community, regarding the threat that Piscine Orthoreovirus or PRV poses to the wild salmon population. The following audio is taken from the testimony that Dr Gideon Mordecai gave on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
Continue reading Geneticist testifies to DFO’s failure to protect wild salmon from PRVBy Shari Narine, Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
As the forest fire season in Canada continues to start earlier each year, destroying more and more hectares of wooded area, a new study recommends removing barriers so Indigenous-led cultural burning practices can be used as prominently as the western way of fire suppression is today.
Continue reading Cultural burning holds important place in wildfire mitigationNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Whenever scientist Iria Giménez wants to contemplate her work, she settles on a wobbly driftwood bench perched on a mossy rock bluff and stares over the waters of Hyacinthe Bay on Quadra Island.
But despite the remoteness of her thinking spot on the small ferry-dependent island, Giménez is just steps away from the Hakai Institute’s cutting-edge Marna Lab, a key research hub on the biological impacts of ocean acidification (OA) and climate change on the B.C. coast.
Continue reading State-of-the-art lab on Quadra Island untangling the effects of ocean acidification
