Legal victory offers hope for killer whales
Media Release, December 7, 2010
Federal Court rules DFO failed to protect B.C. resident killer whale critical habitat. Conservation groups, represented by Ecojustice, have won a landmark decision…
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Bottle thrown into the ocean near Hartley Bay gives clues into behaviour of oil spills
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
December 7, 2010A message in a bottle has washed up on the east coast of Haida Gwaii, providing one more piece of a jigsaw puzzle showing the web of currents swirling around the Pacific Ocean…
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The Captain and Kermode
Seaside Times
December 2010
By Chris GenovaliCaptain Brian Falconer has headed Raincoast’s Marine Operations Program for the past eight years, overseeing the operation of our coast guard certified research vessel, Achiever…
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Including wildlife in fisheries management just makes sense
The Northern View
Published: November 30, 2010
By Chris Genovali and Misty MacDuffeeAs this year’s returning wild salmon headed upstream, scientists spawned a game-changing idea about how taking less salmon might bring more benefits to ecosystems and economies…
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‘Criticism of sea lice study unfounded’ says Raincoast
Raincoast’s executive director Chris Genovali and salmon biologist Michael Price respond to industry criticism of our sea lice study in the Courier-Islander…
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Sea lice study called misleading
Sea lice from fish farms appear to have spread to wild salmon in a much wider area of coastal B.C. than previously believed, shows a newly published paper by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation…
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Scientists Urge Canada to Protect Its Rainforests
Raincoast senior scientist Dr. Paul Paquet is a co-author of new book highlighting the urgent need for Canada to protect its rainforests as climate change insurance…
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Lice affect more salmon than thought, study says
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
November 11, 2010Sea lice from fish farms appear to have spread to wild salmon in a much wider area of coastal B.C. than previously believed, a newly published study concludes…
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Message In A Bottle
Island Tides, November 11, 2010
As part of an effort to understand ocean currents, and how they would influence the movement of a potential oil spill, scientists from IOS recently teamed up with the Gitga’at and Raincoast to drop ‘drift’ bottles…
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Raincoast responds to industry criticism of sea lice paper
Raincoast biologist Michael Price responds to criticism from the fish farm industry leveled against his peer-reviewed paper recently published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences…
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Evidence of farm-induced parasite infestations on wild juvenile salmon in multiple regions of coastal BC, Canada
M.H.H. Price, A. Morton, and J.D. Reynolds. 2010. Evidence of farm-induced parasite infestations on wild juvenile salmon in multiple regions of coastal British Columbia, Canada. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 67: 1925–1932 Download the paper Price etal 2010 Farm-induced lice infestations CJFAS 2010
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Sea lice from fish farms infect wild juvenile salmon in multiple regions
Today, the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences published findings by Raincoast and other researchers on sea lice infestations of wild juvenile salmon near salmon farms…
