| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
Canada’s oceans, lakes, and rivers are important to the millions of people, including Indigenous communities, that depend on them for work, food, and recreation and cultural purposes.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | media advisories
The Minister of Justice and the Attorney General, the Honourable David Lametti, on behalf of the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will make an announcement regarding investments in ocean science for Concordia University and McGill University.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | media advisories
The Member of Parliament for Acadie-Bathurst Serge Cormier, on behalf of the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will make an announcement on the Government of Canada’s plan to improve the small craft harbours in the Acadian Peninsula.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | backgrounders
The SGaan Kinghlas–Bowie Seamount is located 180 km offshore of Xaayda Gwaay (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, off the North Pacific coast.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
180 km off the edge of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia is an underwater mountain called SGaan Kinghlas. This supernatural being rises from the ocean floor scratching at the surface of the Pacific ocean.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
Plastic pollution is a global challenge that requires immediate action. It pollutes our rivers, lakes, and oceans and entangles and kills marine mammals.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
The Government of Canada is currently putting in place an arrangement to support icebreaking activities in Northern New Brunswick this winter.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
With the world’s longest coastline and surrounded by three oceans – Canada’s marine ecosystems provide a home to an abundance of marine life and support over 350,000 jobs and support hundreds of coastal and Indigenous communities.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | news releases
With the longest coastline in the world, Canada’s coastal communities rely on the fish and seafood industry as an integral contributor to local and regional economies. This is why today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Intergovernmental and Northern Affairs and Internal Trade, and Member of Parliament for Beauséjour, on behalf of the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister for Fisheries and Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, and the Province of New Brunswick (NB) announced funding support to 21 projects through the Atlantic Fisheries Fund.
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | backgrounders
Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Province of New Brunswick are pleased to announce funding of more than 8.1 million through the Atlantic Fisheries Fund.
