logo
Find us on
Twitter Facebook LinkedIn
              
logo 11/28/2024 5:51:40 AM     
Audit shows just one in three Canadian fisheries is healthy 
By Rochelle Baker US Source: Canada's National Observer 11/18/2024

Canada must pick up the pace of protecting and rebuilding vulnerable fish populations, especially as the climate crisis continues superheating oceans, a new fisheries audit shows.

Only 35 per cent of Canada’s 195 fish stocks are considered healthy, while 17 per cent are critically depleted and more than a third aren’t even assessed, according to the annual fishery audit by Oceana, an environmental group.
 

Rebecca Schijns, fishery scientist at Oceana Canada, says Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) needs to redouble efforts to make good on its own policies and laws. Canada strengthened conservation measures under the Fisheries Act five years ago, but 88 per cent of the 33 fish stocks in the critical “red zone” still don’t have mandated recovery plans in place.

 
Continue...

News Id SourceStampcountry
1501Benidorm horror as dozens of tourists report 'piranha-style' fish attacks in seaexpress2023-09-04UK
1502Есть такая рыба вьюнohotniki2023-09-18RU
1503We built our own ISLAND floating on a river using old fishing kitUS News2023-09-18CA
1504Building a catfish farming business from scratchthefishsite2023-09-15GA
1505Озеро дедки Маркаohotniki2023-09-15RU
1506U.S. envoy visits Fukushima to eat fish, criticize China's seafood ban over wastewater releaseyahoo2023-08-31JP
1507NOAA Identifies Seven Nations for Illegal Fishing Activities in 2023 Report to Congressgcaptain2023-09-04US
1508US Accuses China Of Illegal Fishing, But China Says US Is Overfishing Tunathestkittsnevisobserver2023-09-07US
1509Detective McDavitt and the Curious Case of the Clown Wedgefishmotherjones2023-09-09AU
1510B.C. researchers say some fish surviving heat waves better than once thoughtnewwestrecord2023-09-03CA
1511Fishing hook becomes lodged in hungry dog's throatFox News2023-09-16US
1512Тихая осеняя рыбалкаohotniki2023-09-14RU
1513Another try to recover St. Louis River 'dinosaur fish'echopress2023-09-16US
1514Climate Change Takes Habitat From Big Fish, the Ocean's Key PredatorsAssociated Press2023-09-14US
1515Приключения на реке Стрельна в Мурманской областиohotniki2023-09-08RU
1516Game and Fish stocks lake sturgeon fingerlings into the Pembina Riverechopress2023-09-15US
1517A recent study found that rivers are warming up and deoxygenating faster than oceanseurekalert2023-09-14US
1518Warren man sentenced after killing girlfriend's fish with bleach, vinegarwfmj2023-08-28US
1519Photographer Captures Rare Fish That Walks on its Handspetapixel2023-08-31AU
1520Lake Mohave water levels dropping to help endangered fishLas Vegas Review-Journal2023-08-31US
1521Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbansmongabay2023-09-01BD
1522Chile has 4,000 miles of coastline, but fish is scarce and expensiveelpais2023-09-01CH
1523Beachgoer lures out huge worm from sand using fishhindustantimes2023-08-29AU
1524Florida researchers offering $50 to fishermen who catch this species of fishFox News2023-09-12US
1525Ловля трофейной кумжиohotniki2023-09-01RU

134 135 136 60 of [137 - pages.]