Discover scary marine animals with names that sound like horror movie titles, from the black seadevil anglerfish to the dead man's fingers.

Find out more about Oceana Canada’s campaign to stop single-use plastic pollution Oceana.ca/Plastics.

What is Environmental DNA (eDNA)? Environmental DNA (eDNA) is the genetic material shed by organisms in their environment. This material comes from skin cells, scales, mucus, feathers, waste and other ...

The leaves are changing colour, days are getting shorter, and temperatures are cooling, which means one thing: it’s officially fall, but what happens in the ocean in fall? While we can easily spot the ...

Curbside recycling made its Canadian debut in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1981. Since then, Canadians have been told recycling will solve plastic pollution. But the evidence tells a different story.

As Ocean Action Month comes to a close, it’s important to remember that protecting our oceans isn’t limited to one month of the year. The challenges facing our oceans, from plastic pollution to marine ...

Today, Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson announced an increase to the commercial quota for northern cod from 38,000 to 59,000 tonnes, ignoring scientific warnings and raising the risk of stock ...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has confirmed that an endangered North Atlantic right whale is entangled in fishing gear in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near Shippagan, New Brunswick. The whale, a ...

Submarine canyons stretching more than 150 kilometres. Ancient coral forests, with colonies more than a century old. Vast sea pen fields and deep-sea ecosystems few Canadians have ever seen. These are ...

Rose-Marie Ménard, Pilot PMR, rosemarie.menard@pilotpmr.com, +1-579-622-9925 Media assets available here. A new Oceana Canada report, Little Being, Big Foundation, delivers the first national ...

Halifax, NS, Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People – Northern cod is now being described as “healthy,” but scientists say that label risks overstating progress and ...

On February 3, 2026, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) released Canada’s Whalesafe Fishing Gear Strategy, a significant milestone that establishes a national framework to use fishing gear that can ...