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Nuchatlaht Nation Grieves the Damages to the Territory in the Wake of Grieg Seafood Fish Farm Oil Spill
Gumboots in the Straights
We’re so thankful to the “Gumboots in the Straits” team for supporting LOS with royalties from their book. Packed with stories of personal transformation and adapting to the changing tides of life, Gumboots in the Straits captures the dynamic momentum of the decade and the enduring allure of the sea. Learn more about purchasing the book. www.cohobooks.com/item/r5ypYwSBQz-qDBcgvEwSxQ
Southern Resident Killer Whales
Finding Coral Expedition
In June 2009, Living Oceans Society led the Finding Coral Expedition, a journey to the bottom of the sea on Canada’s Pacific coast in search of deep sea corals. Using one person submarines, a team of international scientists made 30 dives to depths of over 500 metres and saw giant coral forests, darting schools of fish, and a seafloor carpeted in brittle stars.
B.C. conservation group sounds alarm after DFO cuts salmon restoration staff in Prince George
"We don't know what outcome they were looking for up here because our stocks are still considered threatened and endangered," said Snyder. "The fishing closures to protect those stocks are still in place." Read the full article here.
Use of co-ordinated 'bubble-net' feeding on rise among humpbacks: study
“What the scientists on the Fin Island research station at the entrance to the Kitimat Fjord System — which connects Kitimat on B.C.’s north coast to Hecate Strait — didn’t realize at the time was that what they witnessed wasn’t just a feeding event, but a shift in the whales’ cultural learning.” Read the whole story at Times Colonist.
