Fisheries

2018 Print Edition, Conservation, Fisheries

In the southwest corner of British Columbia, a great river flows  from a canyon in Hope. Hope marks the start of an historic aquatic corridor in the Lower Fraser River Valley. Here the river runs along rich floodplains, through metro Vancouver, and, ultimately, to freedom from the bounds of land at the Salish Sea. For centuries the region has sustained populations of people and wildlife alike, a fertile crescent of the West.

What is Lost and Found on the Fraser River

Through mud-caked and marsh-soaked lenses, a photojournalism team reveals the inseparable link between the survival of a fish and the future of a city.

Conservation, Fisheries, Oceans

Salmon People

Salmon People

Who will the Salmon People of the Pacific Northwest be when there aren't any salmon?
by × January 9, 2015 × 0 comments

Ecosystems, Fisheries, Human Landscape, Oceans

Scratch the Salmon, I’ll Have the Sea Robin

Scratch the Salmon, I’ll Have the Sea Robin

When will consumers figure out that locally-caught fluke and porgies are tastier than farmed and imported fish species?
by × August 17, 2012 × 0 comments

Actions, Conservation, Ecosystems, Energy, Fisheries, Human Landscape, Oceans

An Unsettling Experiment: Dispersants in the Gulf

An Unsettling Experiment: Dispersants in the Gulf

On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, kicking off a long summer of videos of crude gushing into the sea. Two years later, the offshore oil business is booming, and conventional wisdom has it that the Gulf has fully recovered from the disaster. Not so fast, says Sandy Aylesworth, in an in-depth investigative report.
by × April 22, 2012 × 15 comments

Fisheries, Multimedia

Hauling in the Sound

Hauling in the Sound

In the wake of continually declining lobster stocks in Connecticut, Tahria Sheather follows one of the state's few remaining full-time lobstermen, Mike Theiler, out for a day of hauling to explore what it's really like to be a lobsterman these days in Long Island Sound and capture what is fast becoming an endangered livelihood.
by × March 7, 2012 × 1 comment