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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is revisiting new prawn fishing regulations that small harvesters say will give advantages to big companies exporting products overseas, create more plastic garbage, and will limit local consumers' access to fresh seafood caught by community fishers.  

Seafood ecolabels confuse Canadian consumers, a new first-of-its-kind University of Guelph study suggests

If you have been following the headlines this past year, you might think there is a dire shortage of B.C. seafood, mostly due to reckless overfishing, and that if we want to save what is left, we . . .

Canadians are still committed to beef, but there are some clouds on the horizon for the beef industry

Article content Along Canada’s northwest coast, ancient Indigenous forest gardens — untended for more than 150 years — continue to thrive. Ts’msyen and Coast Salish peoples once planted and cared for plots of native fruit and nut trees, shrubs, and medicinal plants and roots along the north and south Pacific coast, a new Simon Fraser University study finds. Forest gardening is a common method of food cultivation and agroforestry in Indigenous communities around the world, especially in ...

Article content Joel and Melissa Collier had just finished harvesting scallops for the season when the pandemic hit and global seafood markets crashed. As Melissa recalls in an episode of Social FISHtancing, a podcast focusing on how fishers in Canada and the United States have been affected by the pandemic, scrambling to find buyers for their scallops during the early days of COVID-19 was “terrifying.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Know you...