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Leatherback turtles are listed as endangered under Canada’s Species at Risk Act (SARA) and they have a critically endangered listing on a worldwide basis. They are found in all of the major oceans in the world, except in the most extreme northern and southern latitudes, and consist of four major populations divided into Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and South China Sea groupings. One of the reasons they are so widely distributed is because they have the unique ability amongst reptiles to internally regulate their body heat. This means they can adapt to colder sea temperatures which they encounter once they move away from the tropical latitudes on either side of the equator. These turtles are true ocean wanderers, often following the currents for up to 15,000 km a year. One tagged specimen apparently traveled just over 30,000 km in a single year.

Due to lower than expected Chum returns in the Strait of Georgia, effective 00:01 hours November 1, 2019 until 23:59 hours...

Gerry KristiansonWant to know more about Gerry Kristianson? Read our Bio page, click here. Of course sockeye fishing as currently practiced in the Fraser system is sport fishing. Federal government regulations define sport fishing as “fishing for recreational purposes” with anglers prohibited from commercializing their catch by sale, trade or barter.

Effective July 15, 2020 at 00:01 hours until further notice, the recreational daily limit for Chinook salmon in Areas 3,...

I’m going to take a quick break from the casting blogs for a minute here and remind everyone that it's a Pink year! What is a pink year? Here, along the British Columbia coast, primarily our local waters surrounding Vancouver we see a major pink salmon return every two years falling...

Controlling Unwanted Transplants: Zebra Mussels North America’s industrial, agricultural and municipal water supplies, freshwater shipping, fishing, and shellfish harvesting are under a multimillion-dollar threat from the zebra mussel, first found in the Great Lakes in 1988. The spread of zebra mussels to other waterways can be prevented by boaters who flush their...

Now that the Pinks are showing up it's time to look at the business end of things: locations and fly line selection. Around Vancouver we have two distinct pink salmon fisheries: one is beach fishing off local beach spots scattered along the North Vancouver coastline, stretching up through Howe Sound...

Effective 00:01 hours November 8, 2019 to 23:59 hours December 31, 2019, the daily limit for Coho Salmon is one (1)...

By Todd Martin, originally published in the 2014 May issue of BC Outdoors magazinePursuing kokanee is like assembling a puzzle, where every day, the pieces change shape and colour. It can drive you mad, but the rewards for unlocking the daily changes are worth it. Kokanee seem to be a...