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Tag: Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Fisheries Officers capture incredible video of bald eagle swimming in BC

July 31, 2021

It’s not clear if it was butterfly or freestyle, but a bald eagle recently executed a gold medal swim in British Columbia. Department of…

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Canada Problems: Harp seals swarm Newfoundland town

January 11, 2019

They may look cute, but they have become unwelcome house guests. One community on the northern peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador is dealing with…

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Killer whale plays tugboat with sailboat anchor

July 30, 2018

A transient killer whale is treating sailboats off Vancouver Island like toys. Ara Stevenson captured some incredible video of an orca grabbing onto the…

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Narwhal hunting with their tusks finally caught on video

May 15, 2017

They are known as sea unicorns. And now, scientists finally know why narwhals have tusks, or, at least a new confirmed reason they have…

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RIP Wally: Blinded and battered by gunshots, sea otter dies peacefully in his sleep at Vancouver Aquarium

December 11, 2015

Wally had been shot and blinded when he arrived at the Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre more than two years ago. The sea…

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Historic surgery, blood transfusion couldn’t save life of sea otter hit by boat

October 8, 2015

Corky, the injured sea otter rescued after being hit by a boat, has died at the Vancouver Aquarium. Officials performed a groundbreaking surgery, which…

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Norway strikes another blow to the controversial seal hunt

December 16, 2014

Norway’s promise to end subsidies to the commercial sealing industry is being chalked up by animal rights activists as another victory in a campaign…

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Blue whales crushed, die in ice off Newfoundland

April 10, 2014

Shifting ice off has trapped and killed nine blue whales off Newfoundland’s southwest coast, according to Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The whales,…

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Rare right whale found off B.C.’s northern coast

June 20, 2013

North Pacific right whales were hunted to the edge of extinction. Nobody had even seen one in 60 years until James Pilkington, a biologist…

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