In The News: Coasts & Oceans

2022-09-01

When fishing zones get closed down due to whale sightings, fish harvesters now have a new place to turn. Can Fish is a program set up by the Canadian Wildlife Federation to allow fishers to test out and use groundbreaking ropeless technology for free.

2022-07-29

The Canadian Wildlife Federation has launched a new lending program for ropeless fishing gear that it hopes will help keep whales safe, and harvesters out on the water.

2022-07-28

HALIFAX, N.S. July 28, 2022 – The Canadian Wildlife Federation (CWF) is pleased to announce that it has received $4.4 million from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Whalesafe Gear Adoption Fund to establish the CanFish gear lending program to help recover the North Atlantic Right Whale while sustaining commercial fisheries.

2022-07-28

The Canadian Wildlife Federation has launched a new gear lending program. It's to help the East Coast fishing industry access ropeless fishing gear.

2022-07-28

Only three months old, the CanFISH gear lending program has "already replaced over 800 buoylines that could have entangled whales," says CWF's Sean Brillant

2022-07-25

Media are invited to a behind the scenes tour of the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s (CWF) CanFish warehouse for special announcements and updates about the new gear lending program.

2022-03-30

Solutions do exist. ‘It would be great if we could put me out of a job,’ says the coast’s only trained disentangler.

2022-03-18

If a key weapon in the battle to save the North Atlantic right whale is public awareness, the filmmakers and subjects behind a new documentary are on the front lines.

2022-02-18

When journalist Nadine Pequeneza started working on her new documentary Last of the Right Whales, she had never seen one up close in its natural habitat.

2022-02-15

Dalhousie University’s Sean Brillant is among experts participating in a Q&A session following the Halifax premiere of 'Last of the Right Whales' on February 20