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As the group approached, there was a lot of splashing and porpoising. It was determined that the pod of whales was attacking a juvenile humpback whale.

Observations this year from Huu-ay-aht territory see that volume of herring may finally be improving, as the First Nation is reporting a growing number of wild salmon migrating through its rivers.

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.

On a recent family vacation, stranded Velella velella were observed on beaches near Tofino, British Columbia.

The aquaculture industry has failed to bring epidemic of sea lice under control in B.C.’s Clayoquot Sound.

Major sea lice epidemics have erupted on Atlantic salmon fish farms on Vancouver Island’s west coast over the last three months, according to industry, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and independent reports.

DFO documents reveal treatment failures and inability to protect migrating salmon.

Typically these storms remain off the coast of Vancouver Island and we only see the frontal systems move ashore.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada confirms the findings of independent research that says sea lice on salmon farms are becoming resistant to SLICE, a pesticide used to kill sea lice.

The blob is the popular name for a huge patch of warm water that has reached above normal temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.

Questions have been raised after the 10th widest Douglas fir tree in BC BigTree Registry is cut down.

Biologist Jackie Hilderling says four years of decline in B.C.'s sea star population is due to climate change warming local waters and making the animals susceptible to sea star-associated densovirus.

FioRito, Rebecca, Celeste Leander, and Brian Leander. "Characterization of three novel species of Labyrinthulomycota isolated from ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus." Marine Biology 163.8 (2016): 1-10.

A species of invasive seaweed is becoming very abundant and displacing native species.

Scientists are trying to determine why thousands of tiny seabirds called Cassin's auklets have washed up on the West Coast, all the way from B.C. to California.

Some want to be able to kill them again off BC's coast. Part one of a Tyee special report.

B.C. drought exacerbating forestry damage to Bedwell River near Tofino as Ahousaht First Nation works to protect salmon, restore watershed.