The lack of transparency about who owns or controls commercial fishing licences, quota and vessels in Canada makes B.C. fisheries attractive targets for criminals looking to launder money, former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German cautioned a federal fisheries committee.

A parliamentary committee investigating whether corporations and foreign owners have a stranglehold on Canadian fisheries is experiencing a serious case of deja vu. 

Birders and biologists are banding together to urge the B.C. government to protect ancient forests on southwestern Vancouver Island in a bid to save threatened marbled murrelet nesting sites.

American fishing boats catching threatened Canadian salmon was flagged as a top concern for federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray before meeting with the U.S. ambassador to Canada in March. 

"Oh, my God. How long am I going to have to wait?” wondered Carol Woolsey, 77, after she dialled 911 for a medical emergency and heard no local paramedics were available in her island community.

New technology is allowing researchers to covertly monitor, record and identify the sounds fish make underwater to try to unravel their deepest secrets.

A new tidal energy pilot project to reduce dependence on diesel in B.C.’s remote coastal communities is set to launch after getting $2 million in provincial funding.

Chevron voluntarily gave up 19 exploration permits in B.C.'s Scott Islands marine National Wildlife Area and two fragile glass sponge reefs after conservation groups launched a court challenge.

Underwater forests represent an average of $500 billion annually in benefits to commercial fisheries, ocean pollution removal and carbon absorption, a new international study shows.

“These things are eating machines, and we don’t even know how big they're gonna get. The question is, ‘What’s the damage to the ecosystem?’” says fishing guide Pat Demeester about the escape of massive farmed rainbow trout into B.C.'s Lois Lake.