Federal Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Transport Canada’s Marc Garneau announced additional plans this morning for protecting the endangered North Atlantic right whale. An earlier start to the snow crab fishing season, along with fixed and temporary closures where whales are spotted and a speed limit for ships in the western Gulf of St. Lawrence […]
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Washington State officials have terminated a lease with Cooke Aquaculture Pacific and fined the company $332,000 after a state investigation conducted last month revealed it had not adequately maintained the net pen that failed last summer and released hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon into Pacific Waters near Cypress Island in Washington. The investigation also
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A study published last week shows that climate change is and will continue to have a major impact on lobster populations in the Gulf of Maine. The good news: conservation measures adopted by the state decades ago will ensure that the fishery so important to coastal communities will survive the changes. The study, authored by
The federal government announced new measures this week aimed at helping North Atlantic right whales return to the Gulf of St. Lawrence next summer. Fisheries and Oceans Minister Dominic LeBlanc introduced four changes to the snow crab fishery during a press conference in Moncton on Jan. 23, the latest in efforts to address the catastrophic
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Tesla’s newest feat may help mitigate one of renewable energy’s most persistent problems — how to use it when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing. In March, Tesla founder Elon Musk vowed on Twitter to deliver a battery system for South Australia’s ailing power grid, and it came with a wager —
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Another North Atlantic right whale has been found dead on a beach on Nantucket Island, off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This brings the number of deaths to 17 for the year in Canadian and US waters, nearly 4 percent of the total right whale population, which currently sits at fewer than 500
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A group of international scientists gathered in Ottawa today to say there is no longer any doubt that common neonicotinoid pesticides are killing bees. The scientists with the International Union for Conservation of Nature released an update to their seminal 2015 report on toxic chemicals in pesticides, in which they reviewed more than 1,100 peer-reviewed
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Canada and the U.S. are launching a joint investigation into the deaths of 13 endangered North Atlantic right whales, after the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared the die off an “unusual mortality event,” or UME. According to the NOAA, a UME is triggered when there is a significant die off in
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Puget Sound and its wild pacific salmon were put at risk last week when a net pen operated by Cooke Aquaculture that held more than 305,000 Atlantic salmon broke open near Cypress Island in Washington state. The company, like other salmon aquaculture operations on the pacific coast of the Americas, farms Atlantic salmon in Puget
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A tenth north Atlantic right whale has been found dead, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) stated in a series of social media posts Tuesday evening. The carcass was found south of the River of Ponds area in Newfoundland by a DFO surveillance flight. The department issued an advisory in July asking mariners to
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