BC's 'Seaweed lady' on cutting edge

Green, pink, purple product drawing raves at restaurants and spas

January 3, 2006 [Vancouver Island/South Coast]

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Caviar trade suspended - but can the sturgeon survive?

The suspension of the international trade in caviar from wild sturgeon, announced today by the CITES secretariat in Geneva, has been widely welcomed by environmental groups.

January 3, 2006 [International]

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Endangered Orcas Need Immediate Help

Lifeforce, a Vancouver based ecology organization, is calling upon the Canadian and US governments to take immediate actions to protect the endangered Southern Community of orcas. Both governments are developing Orca Recovery Plans but it may be too little too late.

January 2, 2006 [Vancouver Island/South Coast]

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Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest

This extraordinary encyclopedia of Pacific Northwest marine life includes descriptions of some 1400 species of saltwater plants and animals and about 1700 colour photos. While it is particularly relevant to the coast of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, the ranges of most of the included organisms extend from Alaska to central California, where Point Conception (just northwest of Santa Barbara) is the northern boundary to a southern California faunal region.

December 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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Pesticides permeate streams

A fisheries study found 39 different pesticides at one location on Musqueam Creek

December 22, 2005 [B.C.]

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Strait's fate still unsettled

Much has been done to protect B.C.'s vulnerable waters since The Sun ran its first series in 1998, but 63 marine species are still at risk and time is short

December 20, 2005 [B.C.]

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Unique investment consortium buys Tofino fish plant to bu...

Ecotrust Canada, a community development organization with offices in Vancouver, Courtenay and Tofino, facilitated Trilogy's purchase by local and outside investors to create a base for value-added processing of local fisheries and shellfish. The new shareholders also want to protect the facility from development pressure in a town that is experiencing an explosion of condo and resort building.

December 19, 2005 [B.C.]

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Ship Company to Pay $10.5 Million For Covering Up Oil Pol...

Largest Environmental Criminal Fine in Massachusetts History

December 19, 2005 [U.S.]

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Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon low...

December 19, 2005 [International]

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Fate of Puget Sound's orcas hangs in the balance

On a clear morning, Vancouver marine conservationist Peter Hamilton drifts in his boat off Point Roberts, watching the J Pod orcas roll by.

December 18, 2005 [International]

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NDP vows to fight offshore oil

Federal NDP leader Jack Layton says his party will fight to strengthen a 30-year moratorium on oil and gas exploration along B.C.’s coast.

December 16, 2005 [B.C.]

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Port plan review draws large crowd

Locals find out more about the environmental review of the Vancouver Port Authority's plans to add a third berth to its container terminal at Deltaport.

December 16, 2005 [B.C.]

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West Van Council seeks a rockfish conservation area

FOC has created Rockfish Conservation Areas (RCA) throughout coastal B.C. to try and protect rockfish, which are particularly susceptible to over-fishing because they are slow to reach their reproductive cycle.

December 15, 2005 [B.C.]

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Efforts to protect orcas may have wide impact

What do chemicals you wash down the drain, Navy ships, a proposed Maury Island gravel mine and an international treaty have in common? Each could be affected by the recent protection of Puget Sound killer whales under the Endangered Species Act.

December 13, 2005 [International]

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Global warming could halt ocean circulation, with harmful...

December 7, 2005 [International]

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Understanding the oceans microbes is key to the Earth's f...

December 7, 2005 [International]

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Government Should Warn About Mercury in Fish, Says CSPI

December 7, 2005 [U.S.]

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2005 Costliest Year for Extreme Weather

The world has suffered more than 200 billion dollars in economic losses as a result of weather-related natural disasters over the past year, making 2005 the costliest year on record, according to preliminary estimates released Tuesday by the Munich Re Foundation at the international climate conference in Montreal.

December 6, 2005 [International]

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Satellites capture first-ever gravity map of tides under ...

December 5, 2005 [International]

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Canada: Consumers' Association calls for ban on imports o...

THE Consumers' Association of Canada has called on the Canadian Government to immediately ban the further importation of certain fish products from China and Vietnam after malachite green was found in fish purchased at Canadian supermarkets.

December 1, 2005 [International]

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Oil port proposals a threat, says Anderson

Retiring Victoria Liberal MP David Anderson warns that proposals for oil ports in Vancouver and Kitimat are more imminent threats to B.C.'s marine environment than offshore oil and gas exploration.

November 25, 2005 [B.C.]

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Oil Tankers Are Coming to the BC Coast

November 24, 2005 [Lower Mainland]

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NDP to undertake fish farm study in B.C.

Fish farm review being watched closely; Robin Austin to lead legislative aquaculture committee .

November 23, 2005 [B.C.]

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Addition of Ecologically-Significant Lands will Double th...

November 22, 2005 [Canada]

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UVic Unveils World's Most Advanced Seafloor Observatory

A project led by the University of Victoria is about to make oceanographic history. VENUS, the world's most advanced, cabled seafloor observatory, will be installed next month in the waters of Saanich Inlet north of Victoria, British Columbia.

November 18, 2005 [B.C.]

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