6-year probe of salmon habitat destruction ends in fines of nearly $400,000

A complex six-year investigation into major habitat destruction along the Chilcotin and Kleena Kleene rivers in British Columbia, Canada, has concluded with a total of Can $545,000, or about U.S. $398,000, in fines, following three court cases. The violations to fish and fish habitat by a cattle company occurred between 2017 and 2020 on two privately owned ranch lands along the two rivers, near Redstone and Kleena Kleene, British Columbia, and on Crown land, according...

Canada seizes elvers worth $367,000 being exported illegally

Officers from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, abbreviated as DFO from its previous name Department of Fisheries and Oceans, with officers from the Canada Border Services Agency, seized about 109 kg of elvers at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Wednesday evening. The elvers, estimated to be worth Can $500,000 (about U.S. $367,000), were to be shipped overseas. An investigation into possible violations of the Fisheries Act is underway, a press release from DFO said. “The magnitude...