Floe Edge Blog

If Atlantic Canada’s fish stocks are to have a chance at recovery, we need to reduce fishing mortality and give stocks a chance to rebuild to healthy levels.

We need to come together as a country and use our collective will, ingenuity and vision to achieve the environmental and economic outcomes we need to secure our future.

Shipping-related noise is expected to increase dramatically if Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation wins approval this year to double its ore production at the Mary River mine.

Oceans North is mourning the loss of our friend and longtime colleague Alfred Jakobsen, 62, who died on February 12 in Nuuk, Greenland. Alfred joined our staff in 2015 and was our Greenland Projects Director.

Despite pandemic-related challenges, Oceans North completed its seventh year of acoustic monitoring in Nunavut’s Eclipse Sound in 2020 to measure the impact of increased shipping on narwhal.

If our goal is only partial rebuilding, then surely we will never rebuild.