Please read the following letter sent by Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich–Gulf Islands and Leader of the Green Party of Canada, to the Hon. Diane Lebouthillier, Minister ...

But the phenomenal annual spawning events of the Pacific herring, which often aggregate densely along the Richmond and downtown San Francisco shorelines, have been losing their grandeur.

Researchers at Portland State University have discovered microplastics in the edible tissue of several Pacific Northwest fish ...

It’s one of nature’s healthiest wild foods, the backbone of a major industry in the Pacific Northwest and deeply embedded in the diets and cultures of Indigenous people in the region. But it, too, has ...

Pacific herring, Pacific lamprey, and pink shrimp. They compared particle concentrations across trophic levels and whether their position in the food web affected what and how much was ...

Microplastics shed from plastic products like clothing and packaging are ending up in the fish we eat, according to ...

The only two fish without any detected microplastics were a Pacific herring ana lingcod the team acquired from a fishing vessel. Pink shrimp – which filter-feed right below the surface of the ...