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.
“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.
The Pacific Marine Conservation Caucus (MCC) welcomes yesterday’s announcement from the Government of Canada continuing vital investments in Pacific salmon and committing significant new funding toward habitat protection and nature conservation.
The renewed investment in the Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative (PSSI)—alongside a broader $3.8 billion national nature strategy—signals a strong commitment to rebuilding salmon populations and protecting the ecosystems that sustain them.
"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.
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