Fisheries & Oceans

Blessed with ideal conditions for fisheries development, the Mekong Delta is becoming home to many fisheries firms which are driving the industry forward to enhance its world-class reputation.

By Elaine Wheat

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is working with P.E.I. fishermen to prevent the ghost fishing of lobster by lost traps.

The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans is working with P.E.I. fishermen to prevent the ghost fishing of lobster by lost traps.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans, it seems, does not want to do the dirty work necessary to protect Puntledge River salmon.

It is the starting point for our oceans' food chain. But stocks of phytoplankton have decreased by 40 percent since 1950, potentially as a result of global warming. It is an astonishing collapse, say researchers, and may have dramatic consequences for both the oceans and for humans.

Research shows that many areas of today's oceans have conditions that parallel those of 250 million years ago, when 95 percent of marine species quickly died out.

ILES-DE-LA-MADELEINE, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - July 29, 2010) - Fisheries and Oceans Canada wishes to remind Magdalen Islands residents and visitors about the regulations and potential dangers related to shellfish harvesting. While visitors and residents alike enjoy harvesting and eating shellfish, bi-valve shellfish are sensitive to water quality and can become contaminated from bacteria, viruses ...

Environmental lobby group Greenpeace has labelled a Ministry of Fisheries plan to open access to several species of bottom trawled fish as unjustified, and the ministry as "out of touch" with international markets.

The amount of plankton in the oceans has declined markedly over the last century, with warming identified as a cause.

One hundred days ago Thursday, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon began spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. As profoundly as the leak of millions of barrels of oil is injuring the Gulf ecosystem, it is only one of many threats to the Earth's oceans that, many experts say, could change the makeup of the oceans as we know them and wipe out a large portion of marine life.

Now that Fisheries and Oceans Canada has been forced to take more responsibility for aquaculture, they must reconsider their position in Port Hardy.

Environmental lobby group Greenpeace has labelled a Ministry of Fisheries plan to open access to several species of bottom trawled fish as unjustified, and the ministry as "out of touch" with international markets.

The Ministry of Fisheries is currently consulting the public on a range of proposed changes to catch limits in deepwater fisheries including orange roughy, hoki, rubyfish and others.

Many of them are skeptical of plans to reopen commercial areas

Don Benninghoven is an unlikely martyr to the cause of ocean protection.

Fisheries scientist Brian Rothschild Wednesday cited the Obama administration's refusal to appoint the consensus choice of industry and state political leaders to a third term representing North Carolina on the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council as the most recent sign the council system is broken.

In two separate studies, researchers find that warming oceans lead to a massive decline in the amount of plant life in the sea over the last century. They say temperature is tightly linked to global patterns of marine biodiversity.

The amount of plankton in the oceans has declined markedly over the last century, with warming identified as a cause.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is revising its protocols on when it closing salmon pools.