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  • 29 Sep 2023 12:57 PM | Matthew Penney (Administrator)

    "Un traitement chimique à la roténone a tué 32 achigans à petite bouche dans la rivière Miramichi Sud-Ouest et le lac Brook, au Nouveau-Brunswick.

    L'intervention a entraîné la mort de 514 saumons indigènes, dont 504 juvéniles.

    L’application de roténone a pour but d’éradiquer l’achigan à petite bouche, une espèce non indigène et invasive qui menace le saumon atlantique."

    via ICI Nouveau-Brunswick

  • 3 Sep 2023 2:30 PM | Matthew Penney (Administrator)

    "Area politicians and the head of a commercial fishing association say they are concerned the conflict around unauthorized lobster fishing in southwest Nova Scotia could be heating up again."

    via CTV Atlantic

  • 3 Sep 2023 2:28 PM | Matthew Penney (Administrator)

    "Off the coast of Nova Scotia, the waves were three metres high, the wind was gusting toward the shore, and Chris Harvey-Clark was under water.

    He was scuba diving near the shipwrecked Letitia, south of the Halifax harbour. Just as he was returning to the water's surface, he turned, and there it was, teeth and all — a great white shark.

    'It's epic ... a very exciting moment,' said Harvey-Clark, the director of animal care at Dalhousie University who specializes in shark studies."

    via CBC

  • 3 Sep 2023 2:22 PM | Matthew Penney (Administrator)

    While angling for Striped Bass (Morone saxatilis) out on his kayak, a fisher instead hooks a juvenile Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias). He cut the line.

    via CTV Atlantic

  • 15 Feb 2021 6:18 PM | Anonymous

    "A decade-long warming trend in the Gulf of St. Lawrence continued in 2020 with deep waters reaching record highs, according to ocean climate data released Tuesday by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

    Water temperatures at depths of 200, 250 and 300 metres were higher than any measured in the Gulf since records started in 1915, hitting highs of 5.7 C, 6.6 C and 6.8 C.

    All were well above the normal variations.

    "It is scary to me because we're completely outside of the known envelope," Peter Galbraith, a longtime federal research scientist, said in an interview.

    Via CBC NS


  • 20 Jan 2019 12:56 PM | Anonymous

    "The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has invested $1.7 million to fund an artificial reef project in Miramichi Bay.

    Two organizations, Anqotum Resource Management and Homarus Inc., have partnered in the project to help restore coastal habitat along New Brunswick's eastern shore.

    Artificial reefs are concrete blocks designed with openings at the bottom to provide shelter for species found on the ocean floor, like lobsters, mussels and rock crabs.

    "It essentially allows them to grow up during the phase where they are most at risk of being eaten," DFO Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said."

    via CBC NB

  • 16 Jan 2019 1:02 PM | Anonymous

    "There is a high probability that Atlantic cod will be locally extinct in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence by mid-century — even with no commercial fishing, according to a new report.

    "Since the late '90s none of the other hypotheses really had support except for the possibility the high natural mortality is due to predation by grey seals," says Swain.

    The Gulf grey seal population grew to 100,000 in 2014 from about 8,000 in 1960. In summer, they gather everywhere from Nova Scotia's Pictou Island to the Magdalen Islands of Quebec.

    "In these projections, if we assume natural mortality were to stay where it is now and there was no fishing, then cod would be gone by middle of the century," he says."

    via CBC NS


  • 12 Dec 2018 3:23 PM | Anonymous

    "For the first time in 4½ years, a healthy adult Atlantic whitefish has been discovered in its lone refuge outside Bridgewater, N.S.

    The critically endangered relative of the Atlantic salmon — a 33-centimetre female — was found in a fish trap on Dec. 7, ending a worrisome drought.

    No adults had been seen alive since the arrival of chain pickerel, a voracious invasive species that has become established in two of the three lakes that make up the Petite Riviere watershed — the only place on the planet where the Atlantic whitefish survives."

    via CBC NS




  • 8 Nov 2018 12:21 PM | Anonymous

    "To Canadian fisheries scientist Luc Comeau, the humble blue mussel is more than a bivalve — it's a bio sentinel.

    If something is strange in the environment, they will behave strangely," says Comeau, a scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

    Comeau is part of an international effort that is using sophisticated sensors to convert a mussel's distinctive behaviour when exposed to stressors into an early detector of toxic algae.

    "DFO's interest in this is having an early warning system, having sentinels out at sea that could monitor continuously the water quality. So these mussels that are connected are like canaries in mines," he says."

    This article also features long-time ACCESS member Dr. Jon Grant. 

    Via CBC NS


  • 19 Oct 2018 12:13 PM | Anonymous

    "Parks Canada is working to refortify the Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton against assaults from the sea.

    Work has started to build up the Quay Wall, which separates the reconstructed site from Louisbourg harbour. 

    "We know that since the 18th century sea levels have risen about a metre," Ebert said. "We also know that, due to climate change, that we've got both more storms but also more intense storms."'

    via CBC 



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