Oceans Update - March 2025

You’re probably wishing, like me, that ocean health was the biggest problem you had to worry about right now. With a bright orange dumpster fire burning to the south of us and the far right rising east of us (not to mention among us), the year’s getting off to a pretty grim start. Add in a governing party preoccupied with choosing the firefighter-in-chief and a looming election; and it doesn’t seem likely that we’re going to see positive policy change for the environment any time soon.

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Government declines to issue emergency order for SRKW

Friday, March 7, 2025

VANCOUVER, BC, UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (MUSQUEAM), Sḵwx̱w̱ú7mesh (SQUAMISH), AND səlilwətaɬ (TSLEIL-WAUTUTH) TERRITORIES, March 7, 2025 /CNW/ - Conservation groups are warning that the federal government's decision not to issue an emergency order to protect southern

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University of Victoria (UVic) researchers track herring spawning using satellites

Submitted by fionn-yaxley on Tue, 02/18/2025 - 13:39

“By using the satellite images, his team can see if herring are returning to the same coasts to spawn, if they’re choosing different ones, or if they’re coming in similar numbers.” Read the full article.

Conservation groups get ready for new appeal on Discovery Islands fish farm ban

Watershed Watch Salmon Society and other conservation groups represented by Ecojustice, get ready for Mowi Canada West appeal

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The Watershed Watch Salmon Society is getting ready to fend off another challenge from Movi Canada West to overturn the 2024 decision on banning fish farms off of the Discovery Islands.

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Government failure to recommend emergency order to protect endangered orcas prompts legal challenge from conservation groups

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

VANCOUVER/UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (MUSQUEAM), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (SQUAMISH), AND səlilwətaɬ (TSLEIL-WAUTUTH) TERRITORIES – Conservation groups filed a legal challenge over the failure of the federal Ministers of Fisheries and Oceans and Environment and Climate Change to make a timely recommendation to Cabinet for an emergency order — an action they’re legally required to take under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) after determining that Southern Resident killer whales face imminent threats to their survival and recovery.   