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Swimming While Dead

  • June 15, 2022
  • by CWF
How can we stop entanglement? Some might say that fisheries have not changed much over the years. Fish harvesters go to sea in their boats, set traps or nets, and…
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  • Coasts & Oceans

What Does Your Garden Have to Do With the Health of Our Waterways? Everything!

  • June 14, 2022
  • by April Overall
For the last day of Rivers to Oceans Week, we wanted to focus another danger in our water — pesticides! While people have been using pesticides since 1000 B.C. (using…
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  • Coasts & Oceans

Are Vessels Villains?

  • June 12, 2022
  • by April Overall
From cargo ships to pontoon boats, vessels can pose quite a risk to our marine and freshwater species. Ship strikes, for example, can negatively impact all kinds of whales; many…
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Breaking Barriers

  • June 11, 2022
  • by April Overall
Over the years, we have built hundreds of thousands of dams, culverts, levees and road crossings. These human-made barriers are riddled across our waterways. There are more than 40,000 dams…
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  • Coasts & Oceans

Open-pen Finfish Aquaculture has got to go

  • June 10, 2022
  • by April Overall
Disease can spread from one species to another relatively easily via open-pen finfish aquaculture (OPFA). Many species of fish, shellfish and seaweed are raised for consumption through aquaculture, but Atlantic…
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  • 4 minute read
  • Coasts & Oceans

Plastic is Killing Our Wildlife

  • June 9, 2022
  • by April Overall
Nearly 80 per cent of marine litter is ushered into the sea via wind and runoff — litter from our roadways make its way to our streams and rivers and…
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  • Coasts & Oceans

Happy Rivers to Oceans Week!

  • June 8, 2022
  • by April Overall
Today is the first day of Rivers to Oceans Week! This Rivers to Oceans Week, we are taking a deep dive into the dangers lurking in the water. And no,…
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  • Coasts & Oceans
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Last of the Right Whales

  • February 10, 2022
  • by April Overall
A Documentary that Tells the Hard Truth About this Endangered Species and Implores You to Know and Love this Whale With fewer than 350 remaining, the North Atlantic Right Whale…
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  • 3 minute read
  • Coasts & Oceans
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Help Save Our Birds From Plastic Pollution

  • December 10, 2021
  • by April Overall
It is no secret that plastic pollution is a massive threat to our wildlife. According to the World Economic Forum, if we keep producing plastic at the rate we are…
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  • Coasts & Oceans

Cold for Comfort

  • December 10, 2021
  • by Jerika Bradford
Why so many marine species are seeking colder waters Most of us know by now that the oceans simply cannot increase their temperatures by more than 2℃ without disastrous consequences…
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