Canadian Sustainable Fish
June 28th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
New research in a benchmark study by WWF Canada has found that 91% of Canadians feel it’s important that fish and other seafood on sale in Canada come from sustainable and not overfished stock. Over two thirds (68%) of Canadians feel that it’s very important that fish and seafood come from sustainable stock. Howeve...
Tags: Canada, fish, Loblaw, sustainable, WWF
April 21st, 2011 by Michelle Ly in General
The Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation (HCTF), a non profit charitable organization, recently announced that they are investing over $6 million dol...
Tags: BC, Conservation, fish, Wetlands, Wildlife
September 17th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Friday File
Biodiversity 911 is an online visit to a symbolic hospital emergency room where animated creatures are being treated for a variety of environmental ailmen...
Tags: biodiversity, Conservation, environmental, fish, WWF
September 1st, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
Europe’s coastal ecosystems are under increasing pressures including habitat loss and degradation, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of...
Tags: bird, Climate Change, coastal, Conservation, ecosystem, Europe, European Environment Agency, fish, habitat, Wildlife
August 31st, 2010 by Susie Hill in Food
Wild fish populations can no longer meet the massive buyer demand for seafood, and fish-farming (or ‘aquaculture’) has become the fastest growing se...
Tags: aquaculture, eat locally, environment, farm, fish, seafood
Black Rockfish Conservation
August 18th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
A Vancouver Aquarium conservation team led by Dr. Jeff Marliave has been trying to re-establish black rockfish along the shorelines of West Vancouver. Once abundant in the area, the species was overfished in the mid 1900’s and virtually disappeared lo...
