Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. American fishing boats catching threatened Canadian salmon was flagged as a top ...

Canadian fishing is severely cutting into salmon-recovery efforts in the Pacific Northwest, according to two new federal lawsuits. One lawsuit seeks to bar the import from Canada of any salmon ...

A federal fisheries vessel sailed north this September, some 12,000 nautical miles (22,200 kilometres) to the Aleutian Islands, the first Canadian patrol of its kind in the North Pacific. This newly ...

More Washington chinook would be coming home to spawn under proposed changes to a U.S.-Canadian salmon treaty announced Thursday. The move, if approved by the two governments, could give a boost to ...

Nearly 30,000 chinook salmon were wasted as bycatch in the Canadian trawl fishery targeting hake and walleye pollock, a new report from Canadian fisheries officials found. Bycatch, or unintended catch ...

Levels of mercury and other trace metals in both wild and farmed salmon taken from Canadian waters were found to be well below those considered safe, a new study shows. Total mercury levels in the ...

Frankie Dillon displays a chum salmon caught in the Big Fish River, near Aklavik, Northwest Territories, in 2023. (Photo by Colin Gallagher, DFO) Johnnie Storr grew up fishing with his dad in the ...

WHITEHORSE - Canada and the United States are suspending all fishing for Canadian-origin Yukon River chinook salmon for seven years in an attempt to protect the dwindling species. The agreement covers ...

Canada and the United States are suspending all fishing for Canadian-origin Yukon River Chinook salmon for seven years in an attempt to protect the dwindling species. The agreement covers the length ...