Fisheries
- Toolkit 1.0project name:Toolkit 1.0
A new toolkit outlines seven steps to create fisheries licence banks to improve the economics and sustainability of commercial fisheries.
- Seafood Traceability - Thisfishproject_name:Seafood Traceability - Thisfish
Do you know where the seafood on your plate comes from? Thisfish™ does.
- Electronic Monitoring - Area A Crabproject_name:Electronic Monitoring - Area A Crab
The Area A crab industry on the north-west BC coast is one of the most important and lucrative Dungeness crab fisheries in Canada. To ensure it remains that way, it needs to be effectively managed.
As another salmon season comes to an end, we look back on an extremely busy season for Ecotrust Canada staff working to support the programs being run from our Skeena office.
Thisfish.info
Ecotrust Canada's Thisfish has partnered with Sobeys Inc. to launch our seafood traceability system in Sobeys stores across the country, as well as Thrifty Foods and IGA stores in western Canada. This launch makes Sobeys Inc.
On Wednesday August 24, the Lake Babine First Nation celebrated the opening of a smokehouse in the community of Tachet.
- UFFCA Nechako White Sturgeonproject_name:UFFCA Nechako White Sturgeon
If the Nechako white sturgeon population does not recover soon, it will likely become genetically extinct. The Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance (UFFCA), in partnership with Ecotrust Canada and others, are working to prevent just that.
- seafood traceability
How Thisfish worksproject name:seafood traceabilityDo you really know where the seafood on your plate comes from? Ecotrust Canada’s Thisfish™ does.
On June 19, 2011, the first four Observers from Ecotrust Canada’s Observer and Monitoring program set off from the Prince Rupert harbour, heading into Area 3 to do catch monitoring and biosampling on the first commercial gillnet opening of the salmon season.
Thrifty Foods' customers can now trace their fish back to the sea with a click of a mouse, reports The Victoria Times Colonist.


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