Conservation Groups Plea to Retail over Sustainable Seafood Initiatives
CANADA - SeaChoice, Canada’s sustainable seafood program, and its five member organizations, has joined nine US environmental groups in releasing the "Common Vision for Environmentally Sustainable Seafood".

New Technology Boosts Atlantic Canada
CANADA - The first ocean freight system for live shellfish was launched by Aqualife Logistics and Maersk Line at the Atlantic Canada Seafood Showcase in Brussels, recently.

Industry Waits for Promised Government Cash
CANADA - The fisheries and aquaculture industries in Canada are waiting to discover how the money promised in the Canadian budget in February is to be distributed.

Marine Harvest Canada Helps Build Bridges
CANADA - Marine Harvest Canada has joined the Tsolum River Restoration Society, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Comox-Strathcona Regional District, and the City of Courtenay to build two bridges over Towhee Creek on Courtenay’s Regional Fairgrounds.

Group Challenges BC Government's Right to Regulate Fish Farms
CANADA - Noted salmon scientist, tourism operators and commercial fishers have filed a constitutional challenge in bidto save BC wild salmon fishery

Boost for Guysborough County Fishing Industry
CANADA - Canso's inshore fishery is to receive a major boost to revitalize waterfront infrastructure and support the inshore fishery.

Report Calls for Expansion of Aquaculture
CANADA - Aquaculture needs to expand to "help bridge the growing gap between what the capture fisheries can supply and the growing global demand for fisheries products".

Fined for Fishery Violation
NOVA SCOTIA – The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has fined a fish harvester for violating fisheries regulations.

High Water Closes Hatchery
CANADA - High water has closed the Mactaquac Biodiversity Facility in Canada, although authorities say there is no imminent risk to fish stocks at the hatchery.

Eat Salmon, It's Good For You , Says Health Agency
CANADA - British Columbia's Salmon Farmers have welcomed the provincial health authority's recommendation for citizens to eat salmon – both farmed and wild - and as often as possible.

Strong Uptake of Lobster Loan
CANADA - A low interest loan program for lobster fishermen has proved popular with shellfish men on south side of Prince Edward Island.

BC Salmon Stocks Threatened by Squid
CANADA - Scientists are increasingly concerned about a rampaging pack of Humboldt squid now moving through British Columbia waters.

Short Changed - PEI Fisheries Budget Cut
CANADA - Prince Edward Island's Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture took a slight cut when the PEI government unveiled its 2008-2009 budget, in spite of an announcement that some new initiatives are planned.

Lobster Prices Prompt Concern
CANADA - Fishermen in southwest Nova Scotia are greatly concerned that lobster prices will be lower this year than they were on last season's opening day.

Chilean Tours Urges MLA To Push for Domestic Industry
NOVA SCOTIA - Southwestern Nova Scotia has to greatly expand its fish-farming operations, says Liberal fisheries critic Junior Theriault who has just returned from a tour of several aquaculture operations in Chile.