From October 13-17, 2025, the Honourable Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries, participated in multi-day tour of British Columbia and Yukon, engaging with Indigenous leaders, fishery stakeholders, ...

Concern is running high in communities off southwest Vancouver Island as they face possible closures to the salmon fishing that generates millions of dollars in revenue for their region.

Anglers gather on the Columbia River on Tuesday, as seen from Waterfront Park. As of April 13, spring chinook runs are below the 10-year average, 637 compared to 2,210 on the same date. (Taylor Balkom ...

June 19 (Reuters) - Canada will ban open-net salmon farms off the coast of British Columbia by the middle of 2029 in order to help protect dwindling wild Pacific salmon populations, the federal ...

Fishing effort and catched in the Columbia River just upstream of Corbett, Ore., are beginning to slow as most of the chinook run has more farther upstream. (Allen Thomas for The Columbian) Salmon ...

A new peer-reviewed study has challenged two decades of research linking salmon farms in British Columbia (BC), Canada, to declining wild salmon populations, arguing that marine net pen operations ...