Welcome to Blue Fish Canada !

A grassroots charity, our mission to protect the future of Canada’s water quality and health of wild fish stocks.

Blue Fish Explorer

Come Aboard and take Part in research expeditions along the Ottawa River. the fully accessible 24-foot Blue Fish Explorer is equipped with the latest sonar and water testing technology. Learn best practices for catching, assessing and releasing fish.

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Blue fish Center

A fully accessible research station where youth form life-long connections with nature through science, photography, writing, foraging, and traditional knowledge. Work alongside scientists to conduct fish health, habitat and water quality research.

Blue Fish Radio Show

Ranked in the top 12 fishing and top 10 nature science podcasts — features guests with expertise and traditional knowledge about fish health, habitat and sustainable fishing.

Our mission

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.

Take time to learn!

Blue Fish Canada, a registered charity dedicated to the future of fish and fishing, has program objectives that include:

  • Educate youth and provide opportunities for youth to learn about wild  fish and their freshwater and marine environments.
  • Provide youth hands-on experience to increase their awareness about  the restoration and protection of freshwater and marine environments.

Fish health

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.

Fish held in hand on top of water<br />
Poisson tenue dans une main au dessus d'eau

What’s new

Future Angler Foundation

Future Angler Foundation

Lawrence speaks with Future Angler Foundation President Patrick Neu about the origin, mission and future plans to get more youth out fishing.

Blue Fish News – November 9, 2023

Blue Fish News – November 9, 2023

Supreme Fireplaces Supports New Youth Outdoor Exploration Centre! The New Blue Fish Exploration Centre located in Quebec’s Pontiac Region receives a new heat source from Supreme Fireplaces of Montreal to heat the centre’s 162 m2 research station. “The donation of the...

CFN Live Oct 30, 2023

CFN Live Oct 30, 2023

Scotty and Lawrence discuss the Atlantic Glass Eel fishery, why conservation needs to be the corner-stone of all fishing regulations and enforcement, water abundance in the Great Lakes.

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