Government opposes judicial inquiry into collapse of Fraser River fishery
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OTTAWA (CP) - Liberal MPs fought a Conservative motion Thursday that would set up a judicial inquiry into the collapse of this year's Fraser River sockeye salmon run.
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VICTORIA (CP) - Prime Minister Paul Martin's cabinet will review the controversial moratorium preventing offshore oil and gas exploration off British Columbia's north coast, a delegation of B.C. cabinet ministers was told Monday.
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By Patricia Daddona, The Day, New London, Conn.  Feb. 8--Connecticut will not wait for the Environmental Protection Agency  to react to a federal court ruling on power plant fish kills.
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Canada's Supreme Court rejects a law allowing the detention and deportation of foreign-born terror suspects.
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By Rocky Barker, The Idaho Statesman, Boise May 25--A federal judge chastised the Bonneville Power Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wednesday for violating commitments to minimize killing endangered salmon at the Columbia and Snake rivers dams. U.S.
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Have the news stories that matter most sent to your inbox daily. Canada has closed its ports to vessels from the Faroe Islands and Greenland in response to overfishing of shrimp outside its territorial limit.
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The U.S. government asked a judge yesterday to dismiss a Falls Church couple's challenge of their son's imprisonment based on reasons and evidence that would be kept secret from the family and the public.
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By Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 27--SOLDOTNA -- A subcommittee of Kenai Peninsula fishing interests  could not reach consensus on fishing methods for a subsistence fishery on the  Kenai and Kasilof rivers.
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An American proposal to allow the diversion of water from the Great Lakes threatens both the environment and Canada&#39;s sovereignty, critics warn.
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Japan&#39;s proposal to legitimize hunting of minke whale was rejected on Tuesday by a world wildlife protection meeting. The proposal was dropped with 67 votes against, 55 support
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The British government is facing the threat of being sued by Canada over a submarine crippled by fire in the North Atlantic. Visiting Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham said
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Hong Kong conservationists have criticised the government for failing to protect reef fish in the city's marine parks after a survey showed fish populations had not increased from low levels.
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A controversial plan to hunt endangered humpback whales has been suspended, a top Japan official says.
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The trial of five men accused of poaching rare fish from Australian waters in a Uruguayan trawler collapses.
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Maryland's tidal fishery regulators lost a bid to have the state's controversial spring trophy rockfish season freed from special federal oversight yesterday. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission by a 7-6 vote rejected a proposal to end the system.
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VANCOUVER (CP) - The British Columbia government has not fulfilled its duty to consult with a northern B.C. First Nations about the transfer of forest licences once held by the defunct Skeena Cellulose, a B.C. Supreme Court justice has ruled.
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A federal judge on Monday refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing a Canadian mining company of polluting the Columbia River with heavy metals for decades.