Dalhousie project takes aim at invasive species
Aquatron laboratory will test cleanliness of ballast water
View ArticleSenate wants to kill 70,000 seals
Wrong to call this an experiment: Dalhousie biologist
View ArticleAlberta scientist links crude oil to fish deformities
Researchers oppose closure of Experimental Lakes Area
View ArticleA smart new way to save the fisheries
The solution to saving the world’s fish may lie in giving fishermen greater ownership of the seas, according to a new study in the journal Science. Whether Canadians agree or not may depend on which...
View ArticleWhat smells fishy?
Must-reads: John Ivison on abandoning Senate reform; Don Martin on embracing deficits; Jonathan Kay on the Bush legacy; Vaughn Palmer on the B.C. budget. The federal miscellany Deficits, unelected...
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“A time for grown-ups”
Must-reads: Rosie DiManno on women in Afghanistan; Jeffrey Simpson on fixing the fisheries; Dan Gardner on “broken windows”; Jim Coyle on Premier Dad. Tightening the belt; opening the wallet The...
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Europeans catching too much cod?
When it comes to cod, there haven’t been plenty of fish in the sea since the great cod stock collapse of 1992, which led to a fishing ban so that the endangered species could recover. But now, European...
View ArticleToday in oops
Capping a particularly glorious day for Canadian democracy here at Beyond the Commons… this. Maritime lobster fishermen in need of financial help are getting a lift of another kind. A toll-free hotline...
View ArticleToday in oops (II)
The intrepid reporters at the Globe have the audio. “Hey there hot stuff, I’ve been waiting for your call,” a breathless female voice proffers. “Are you ready for some tantalizing fun?” The phone...
View ArticleScience that dare not speak its name
The Privy Council Office bars a salmon researcher from speaking with reporters. Science, one of the world’s top research journals, published Miller’s findings in January. The journal considered the...
View ArticleThe quiet cuts
The government is eliminating 42 jobs with the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. The Department of Fisheries will have its budget cut by $56.8 million. And Veterans Affairs will be cutting...
View ArticleThe quiet cuts
Scientists are upset that the Experimental Lakes Area program will be cut. The benefits for RCMP officers will change. Lower Fort Garry will lose costumed interpreters. Funding for regional development...
View ArticleC-38: Solving a problem that’s already been fixed?
Postmedia obtains documents that suggest the environmental assessment duplication that the budget bill is supposed to prevent is already being addressed. “Amendments made in 2010 have made the CEA...
View ArticleC-38: Protest and procedure
More news of weekend protests in Truro, Oakville, St. John’s, Nanaimo, Owen Sound, Swift Current, Kenora, Ladner, Coquitlam and Cobourg. The United Steelworkers, the Registered Nurses’ Association of...
View ArticleSplitting C-38: How bout now?
Though the Conservatives rejected similar entreaties by the NDP last month, the Liberals hope the prospect of several hundred votes will now convince the government to spit the budget bill....
View ArticleAnd now a word from the Muskoka Watershed Council
The council isn’t impressed with the withdrawal of government funding for the Experimental Lakes Area. The closure of the ELA, Brouse said, would be a blow to local watershed stewardship initiatives....
View ArticleLack of research threatens Canada’s only Arctic fishery: study
Fisheries scientists say Canada has been expanding its Arctic fishery without understanding very much about it. And that ignorance could threaten the future of the $65-million turbot fishery off Baffin...
View ArticleB.C. scientists say Chinese fisheries don’t report 91 per cent, UN skeptical
VANCOUVER – Chinese fisheries catch an estimated $11.6 billion worth of fish from the waters of other countries each year, yet only about nine per cent of that is reported, according to a study out of...
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Does the future of the fisheries rest on dry land?
JR Rardon / Namgis Project Fancy some Manitoba cod? How about Saskatchewan salmon? The idea of Prairie seafood may seem outlandish, but with soaring demand running headlong into environmental concerns...
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Salmon expert: Tailings pond leak won’t affect sockeye salmon run
A spawning sockeye salmon is seen making its way up the Adams River in Roderick Haig-Brown Provincial Park near Chase, B.C. in 2010. (Jonathan Hayward/CP) When a tailings pond breached through the...
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