Since 2012 Blue Fish Canada is dedicated to the conservation, protection, and restoration of Canada’s freshwater and saltwater environments and their wild fish stocks. It aims to document and promote Canada’s fishing heritage and sustainable fishing practices, ensuring that future generations of Canadians have access to healthy freshwater and marine fisheries.
Blue Fish Canada, a registered charity dedicated to the future of fish and fishing, has program objectives that include:
Fish health may be the least understood and most difficult to assess research challenges. Assessing water quality is relatively simple in comparison, but water quality alone isn’t a measure of fish health. Time and resources are required to locate and capture fish in numbers that adequately represent the aquatic or marine ecosystem as a whole, not an easy task when fish move about and are largely invisible to the human eye.
Lawrence and Scotty discuss Blue Fish News highlights including what’s driving the growth in numbers of youth anglers, 2022 salmon capture data in B.C. and Quebec, the tragic loss of four youth anglers and one adult along the north shore of the St. Lawrence River.
What's new at Blue Fish Canada: We start with an editorial on the closing divide between rural and urban youth and their interest in fishing. There’s so much to report including an up-coming “Get Ready For fishing event, Ontario’s mourning the loss of local champion...
What's new at Blue Fish Canada: As the chair of the Great Lakes Fish Health Network. I’m pleased to report that several of us network members and others recently submitted a powerful academic review of the application of fish consumption advisories on the Upper St....