HTMF: Prince Rupert's Website (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
And they have no plan, they just stare at the wall and ignore us."-- Area "A" Crab Association Executive Director Geoff Gould, expressing his frustrations with DFO over issues that continue to cause concern with the crab industry. The supply of crab s...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Federal fisheries officials have closed the Alsek River in the Yukon to sport fishing this summer due to low salmon numbers.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is considering licensing the recreational cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador, after officials discovered the amount of fish caught could be four times what it estimated.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
Agarwal Mahasabha, organised a tree plantation programme in association with Visakhapatnam Urban Development Authority at Thotlakonda hill on Sunday. In all 501 saplings were planted. Vice-Chairman of VUDA V.N. Vishnu, DFO (VUDA) B.V.A. ...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
...MPs who oppose Henry Morgentaler's being awarded the order of Canada. Here's the 11 that weren't on my previous list:Conservative MP Loyola Hearn, St. John's South-Mount Pearl, New FoundlandLiberal MP Paul Zed, St. John, New BrunswickConservative MP Garry Breitkreuz, Yorkton-Melville, SaskatchewanConservative MP Richard Harris, Cariboo - Prince George, British ColumbiaConservative MP Myron Thompson,...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans will be seeking the highest possible penalty against the individual who sold shellfish that caused a potentially fatal illness in eight people in New Brunswick.
The Sir Robert Bond Papers (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Stockwell came to town today. Along for the ride were Loyola Hearn, the federal fisheries minister, Conservative member of parliament Fabian Manning, and Norm Doyle, soon-to-be double pensioned. Stockwell, a minister in the federal government, took a few moments from traipsing around a provincial prison and a few other choice spots not featured in the usual tourist itinerary to pass out some federal...
Think Salmon Web site (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
DFO will add a condition to it’s scientific licencing system, SLIC. DFO Kamloops office will pilot use of this new condition in 2008. MoE will manage data submitted using their service. MoE will provide DFO with a summary of data submitted by DFO licence number when required. DFO will track types of data submitted and evaluate the value of the data submitted and document any issues. If value is proven,...
Right Mind (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
These kinds of stories were unheard of 40 years ago. From the DFO . Kennewick, Wash., police report that a pregnant woman was stabbed multiple times in the chest and her nearly full-term baby was cut from her womb. A second woman has been arrested. The baby has been hospitalized in critical condition. Court documents say 27-year-old Araceli Camacho Gomez of Pasco had her hands and feet bound with yarn...
merinews - citizen powered media (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Illegal mining is being carried out in Hadgarh wildlife sanctuary and the bordering areas. Despite several recommendations by the DFO for the closure of the mines, chief wildlife warden has failed to take action.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
When John Stockner talks about water, people listen.Dr. Stockner, now retired from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, is one of Canada's most eminent scientists in the field of limnology, the study of lakes and other fresh water.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
KORAPUT: Students of various schools, who scored maximum marks in HSC examination,were felicitated by Talent’s +2 Residential College at Koraput. Atish Kumar Behera, DFO, was the chief guest. Former MLA Gupta Prasad Das also ...
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
MiningWatch has learned from Environment Canada (EC) that together with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) they now maintain a list of some twenty lakes that are slated for destruction by mine waste over the next few years. This amounts to a massive public subsidy to the global mining industry in the form of healthy Canadian lakes.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
First nations in British Columbia have added their voice to a call for the Auditor-General of Canada to investigate the actions of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on the West Coast.
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
People will be allowed to reel in one of their most coveted catches again this summer.The Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced today it will reopen the inshore recreational cod fishery, also known as the food fishery, next month.
