Exterminators are fielding more calls about rodent activity. Rat-related calls are up 20 percent from last year; include mice and calls are up 57 percent.

Biologists say plentiful food and other conditions are helping the rodents to thrive, and now the young ones are hitting the road.

Some tourists have canceled summer trips and lawmakers on Tobago have termed the sargassum invasion a “natural disaster.”

Fisheries and Oceans Canada authorized a rare recreational sockeye opening in the non-tidal Fraser River from Mission to Hope (Aug. 22–Sept. 1, 2025) after unexpectedly large sockeye returns; retention is two sockeye per day and four pinks per day, with restrictions to avoid impacts on non-target stocks.