“The Gitxsan Huwilp Government initially called for an immediate stop to all train hauling in the vicinity of their traditional territory due to the cars near the water, and are now calling for an investigation into the health of the 114-year-old rail line." Read the full article.

“First launched by Gordon Campbell’s BC Liberal government in 2007, the Climate Action Secretariat was designed to sit above the ministry-level fray to ensure that climate policy was integrated across all departments.” Read the full article.

Taylor says “it’s appalling” for Alaska to apply a different standard to B.C. fish and the Marine Stewardship Council “is letting them get away with it.” Read the full article in The Narwhal.

“Canada’s new strategy, originally set to be released last spring, was spurred by vulnerable right whales, Vatcher said, but entanglement is a top threat — along with vessel strikes — for all large baleen whales on Canada’s coasts, including humpbacks, minke, blue and fin whales.” Read it in the Times Colonist.

“We’re facing record lows with a lot of our salmon populations, and so we’re at a point now where we have to do everything we can to rebuild those populations so that we can have some abundance.” Read the full story at Nanaimo News Now.

"It's been a really great fund that's allowed us to do restoration, monitoring and research," said Dave Scott, research and restoration coordinator for the Raincoast Conservation Foundation's Lower Fraser salmon program. "[The fund] gets a huge number of applications for conservation and restoration-focused work. Politically, I think they would get a lot of pushback if they totally dropped that from [the BC fund]."

Read the full article at National Observer.

“But salmon and salmon life cycle doesn’t end at the river mouth,” said Fulton. “That’s why we need to look further afield. We need to look at eelgrass ecosystems that are nurseries for salmon and we need to look at these other complex nearshore ecosystems like kelp forests.”

Read more at Haida Gwaii Observer.

"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.