Hakai magazine · Environmental Justice Food Indigenous Oceans Policy
First Nations Test the Political Water with Fish Farm Protests
First Nations’ occupations of fish farms are rooted in a deeper conversation about Indigenous land rights.
TakePart · Biodiversity Conservation Oceans
An Earsplitting Threat Is Endangering the World’s Rarest Killer Whales
Noise pollution from ships imperils Southern Resident orcas that depend on sound to communicate and find food and mates.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Climate Change Oceans Policy
Designing Marine Protected Areas in a Changing Climate
How can vulnerable marine species be protected when climate change is a reality?
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Canada Has New Rules Governing Its Marine Protected Areas. Do They Go Far Enough?
Fisheries and Oceans Canada cites public backlash as one of the motivating factors for changing the rules governing marine protected areas.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Is Canada Taking Shortcuts to Hit Its Marine Protection Targets?
The government is counting fisheries closures as protected spaces in order to hit a 2020 target. Many scientists argue this is not meaningful conservation.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Proposed Amendment Could Actually Protect Marine Protected Areas
New legislation would give planned MPAs interim protection during the years-long approval process.
Hakai magazine · Biodiversity Oceans Policy
Canada’s New Marine (Less) Protected (Than It Could Have Been) Areas
A string of concessions to the oil and gas and fishing industries has severely weakened the protective value of Canada’s largest planned marine protected area.
Hakai magazine · Environmental Justice Food Oceans
The Consequences of China’s Booming Demand for Seafood
The country is putting restrictions on its domestic fishing fleet, but its distant water fleet has been growing to compensate.
Is China’s Hands-Off Approach to Fisheries Producing More Fish?
China’s fishers indiscriminately target predators as well as prey, putting different pressures on the ecosystem.
Hakai magazine · Climate Change Oceans
A Cull to Save the Kelp
An innovative project is rehabilitating California’s kelp forests after decades of degradation at the hands of environmental decay and sea urchin predation.
bioGraphic · Biodiversity Conservation Oceans
A Drop in the Ocean?
As the world’s marine ecosystems face ever-increasing threats, is the the trend toward huge, remote reserves a promising new development or a worrisome distraction?
