All told, the joint Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)-Canadian Coast Guard operation boarded 41 international fishing vessels ...

The high-seas inspections resulted in 39 violations of international fisheries requirements. The most prominent was shark ...

The DFO gives some credit to the clearing of the Big Bar landslide on the Upper Fraser River. Because sockeye return in ...

The 10th edition of the Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Nigeria and Ghana (COESSING) has opened at the University ...

A Canadian-led patrol of the North Pacific featuring a Victoria-based ship has uncovered dozens of alleged fisheries violations, including illegal shark finning and killing of dolphins.

In his 50-plus years of fishing the Salish Sea, Paul Kershaw has never seen a Fraser River summer sockeye salmon run so large, maybe up to 13 million, and not being able to do anything about it.

Canada launched Operation North Pacific Guard in May, marking the third straight year Canada’s DFO has led the annual ...

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a serious problem around the world, posing a significant threat to fish populations and damaging marine environments. IUU fishing also jeopardizes ...

Ottawa, ON - Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a serious problem around the world, posing a significant threat to fish populations ...

Erosion has lowered the riverbed by about one metre, and also compromised the stability of the south-side dike that protects ...