Marine conservation links

Sustainable seafood and fisheries

SeaChoice is a national seafood program supported by the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, David Suzuki Foundation, Ecology Action Centre, Living Oceans Society and the Sierra Club of Canada. Its goal is to encourage sustainable fisheries, in part through consumer choices. The website includes a seafood guide.

The Vancouver Aquarium's conservation program OceanWise helps restaurants and customers make environmentally friendly seafood choices.

Nova Scotia's Ecology Action Centre focuses on a variety of environmental concerns, including coastal and marine issues.

The University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre is committed to research that supports restoring fisheries, conserving aquatic life and rebuilding ecosystems.

The Sea Around Us Project has used a Geographic Information System to map and study the impact of fisheries on the world's marine ecosystem.

The Myers Lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax is named for the late Dr. Ransom A. Myers, and continues his efforts to use science to prevent overfishing and extinction in the oceans.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium's "Seafood Watch" program helps consumers make sustainable seafood choices.

The South Carolina Aquarium's Sustainable Seafood initiative teams up with local chefs and restaurateurs to ensure more sustainable seafood reaches the plates of consumers.

Although seafood can be part of a healthy diet, some types contain high levels of mercury, which is toxic. Got Mercury? has information about mercury levels in fish, as well as a mercury calculator so that you can gauge whether or not your diet is safe.

Wild salmon

Salmonopolis.ca is intended to provide educational, capacity-building and advocacy resources for volunteer-based salmon-conservation organizations throughout the province of British Columbia.

For the Sake of the Salmon is a website designed primarily for watershed groups working to restore and protect salmon habitat.

Save Our Wild Salmon is a coalition of conservation organizations and commercial and sportfishing businesses and associations in the American northwest.

The Steelhead Recovery Plan is a project dedicated to recovering stocks of steelhead trout in key watersheds in southwestern B.C.

Aquaculture

Farmed and Dangerous is a B.C. coalition working to encourage the salmon-farming industry to reform current aquaculture practices.

Seaweb provides a clearinghouse of information on aquaculture issues.

The Endangered Fish Alliance comprises concerned chefs and restaurateurs in the Toronto area who are committed to making environmentally responsible choices for the seafood they serve in their restaurants.

Calling from the Coast is a regular video blog produced in the Broughton Archipelago on the developments in a field season of research on salmon-lice interactions with Alex Morton. (Adobe Flash Player required to view this site.)

Offshore oil drilling

The Oil Free Coast Alliance is made up of more than 100 conservation, labour and First Nations groups who support maintaining the moratorium on offshore oil and gas exploration on the B.C. coast.

No Tankers is an effort by the Victoria-based Dogwood Initiative to maintain and strengthen the moratorium on oil tankers in the Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait, and Queen Charlotte Sound on B.C.'s coast

Canadian marine issues

Dr. Tom Reimchen and his graduate students are conducting some of the most innovative research on the British Columbia coast looking at the connections between bears, salmon and the temperate rainforest.

Government links

Canadian Polar Commission

Environment Canada

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

National Research Council of Canada

Natural Resources Canada

B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries

B.C. Ministry of Water, Land, and Air Protection