Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters

Beneath the waves, oxygen disappears As plastic waste pollutes the oceans and fish stocks decline, unseen below the surface another problem grows: deoxygenation. Breitburg et al...

Human Consumption of Microplastics

Microplastics are ubiquitous across ecosystems, yet the exposure risk to humans is unresolved. Focusing on the American diet, we evaluated the number of microplastic particles i...

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

ABSTRACT We present a new map depicting the first global biogeographic regionalization of Earth's freshwater systems. This map of freshwater ecoregions is based on the distribut...

Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution

A mess of plastic It is not clear what strategies will be most effective in mitigating harm from the global problem of plastic pollution. Borrelle et al. and Lau et al. discuss ...

Conservation Status of Imperiled North American Freshwater and Diadromous Fishes

Abstract This is the third compilation of imperiled (i.e., endangered, threatened, vulnerable) plus extinct freshwater and diadromous fishes of North America prepared by the Ame...

Decadal and basin-scale variation in mixed layer depth and the impact on biological production in the Central and North Pacific, 1960-88

A century and a half of change in the climate of the NE Pacific

ABSTRACT Spectral analysis of twenty‐one climate records indicates that NE Pacific temperatures and winter wind stress have fluctuated at four dominant time scales in this centu...

Declines in chinook salmon catches in the Strait of Georgia in relation to shifts in the marine environment

ABSTRACT Chinook, Oncurhynchus tshawytscha, catches in the Strait of Georgia increased in the 1970s and reached maximum levels from 1976 to 1978. Catches then declined until the...