Author: Jim Burgoyne

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15 salmon farms shuttered

anadian Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has announced the federal government will not renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms around British Columbia’s Discovery Islands. Murray says in a news release the Discovery Islands...

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Injured sea lion rescued

[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”rzslI7qHJio” width=”854″ height=”480″ anchor=”https://salishseapilot.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/rescue3-2.jpg”] he SeaDoc Society assembled a team of marine professionals to take part in a dramatic rescue of a sea lion which had become entangled in discarded plastic that was...

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Buoyant at last

ou don’t have to spend a lot of time talking to Washington State Parks employees about the state of marine parks before the conversation drifts to the many mooring buoys that have failed. There’s...

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Massive rogue wave

A massive ocean wave that was tracked off the west coast of Vancouver Island in 2020 is now considered the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded, according to scientists at the University of Victoria....