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    • Sneak Peek: Restorative Food for the Future

      Ocean Wise
      March 27, 2020
      Ocean Wise, Ocean Wise Seafood
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    • Êtes-vous prêt à découvrir notre Saint-Laurent ?!

      Ocean Wise
      January 20, 2021
    • Sustainability Partnership Advantages – from The Big Carrot’s Perspective

      Ocean Wise
      January 15, 2021
    • There’s something for everyone in this ocean-friendly holiday book guide

      Ocean Wise
      December 22, 2020
    • Ocean Wise Explains: Wild Capture Fishery Recommendations

      Ocean Wise
      December 18, 2020
    • Congratulations to Rob Clark for receiving The Order of Canada!

      Ocean Wise
      December 11, 2020
    • Ocean Wise young leaders named to Top 25 Environmentalists Under 25

      Ocean Wise
      December 8, 2020
  • Marine Mammal Rescue
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    • Rescue Centre Team Disentangles Marine Mammals

      Ocean Wise
      March 12, 2014
      Marine Mammal Rescue
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    • Ocean Wise recognizes top ‘whale reporters’ of 2019

      Ocean Wise
      July 21, 2020
    • Urgent call for help to re-open Marine Mammal Rescue Centre

      Ocean Wise
      June 8, 2020
    • Seal-ed with a kiss: Couples wild about volunteering spend quality time at Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre

      Ocean Wise
      February 14, 2020
    • New TV series will feature the work of Ocean Wise Marine Mammal Rescue team

      Ocean Wise
      January 30, 2020
    • ‘Berni’ the tropical sea turtle slowly warms to new MMRC environment

      Ocean Wise
      October 4, 2019
    • Rescued Northern sea otter Tazlina jets in from Alaska

      Ocean Wise
      September 9, 2019
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  • Vancouver Aquarium
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    • Ocean Art Contest

      Ocean Wise
      March 19, 2012
      Vancouver Aquarium
      2
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    • Countdown to National Chowder Chowdown Festival

      Ocean Wise
      January 21, 2021
    • Scuba Claus coming back to town!

      Ocean Wise
      December 11, 2020
    • Whitecaps FC and Vancouver Aquarium bring you ‘ugly Christmas sweater’ face masks

      Ocean Wise
      November 6, 2020
    • From postcards to fish packs: Vancouver Aquarium gives thanks to our amazing community supporters

      Ocean Wise
      October 9, 2020
    • Rescued sea otter and global YouTube star ‘Joey’ featured on new Whitecaps FC facemask in support of Vancouver Aquarium

      Ocean Wise
      October 9, 2020
    • Wondering what people are saying about the Vancouver Aquarium x Whitecaps FC Facemaks?

      Ocean Wise
      October 5, 2020
  • Ocean Wise Seafood
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    • Fairmont's RawBar - YVR's First 100% Ocean Wise Sushi

      Ocean Wise
      March 12, 2014
      Ocean Wise Seafood
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    • Countdown to National Chowder Chowdown Festival

      Ocean Wise
      January 21, 2021
    • Êtes-vous prêt à découvrir notre Saint-Laurent ?!

      Ocean Wise
      January 20, 2021
    • Sustainability Partnership Advantages – from The Big Carrot’s Perspective

      Ocean Wise
      January 15, 2021
    • Ocean Wise Explains: Wild Capture Fishery Recommendations

      Ocean Wise
      December 18, 2020
    • Congratulations to Rob Clark for receiving The Order of Canada!

      Ocean Wise
      December 11, 2020
    • Webinaire : « Découvrez notre Saint-Laurent »

      Ocean Wise
      November 24, 2020
  • Education
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    • A mother and her son pose in front of the webcam after discussing their positive experience with Ocean Wise's online learning virtual classes about marine life.

      Mateo’s Deep Dive: An Online Learning Adventure

      Ocean Wise
      May 12, 2020
      Aquablog, Education, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium
      1
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    • There’s something for everyone in this ocean-friendly holiday book guide

      Ocean Wise
      December 22, 2020
    • Where are they now? Catching up with Ocean Bridge alum Aira Sarmiento

      Ocean Wise
      July 24, 2020
    • Artists for Ocean Wise – new colouring app in support of Vancouver Aquarium

      Ocean Wise
      July 22, 2020
    • Ocean Wise is celebrating ‘World Oceans Day’ for the entire month of June!

      Ocean Wise
      June 3, 2020
    • Winnipegger on guard for oceans: Ocean Bridge’s Kirsten Desorcy profiled in Manitoba newspaper

      Ocean Wise
      May 3, 2020
    • Kids at home? Online Oceans Launches just in time to Save Parents (and help the ocean)

      Ocean Wise
      March 30, 2020
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    • Our North Needs Our Help

      Public Relations
      October 28, 2015
      Arctic Connections, Research Site - CORI
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    • Ocean Wise study: Synthetic fibers are invading the Arctic

      Ocean Wise
      January 12, 2021
    • Quiet Oceans: Has the COVID-19 crisis reduced noise in whale habitats?

      Ocean Wise
      April 11, 2020
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    • Pilot Program Conducts Ocean Plastics Workshop with Youth from Nunavut’s Pond Inlet

      Ocean Wise
      October 4, 2019
    • Diving in the Arctic Unknown

      Ocean Wise
      August 22, 2018
    • Innovation in the High Arctic

      Ocean Wise
      August 14, 2018
    • Wild Canadian Coastlines 

      Ocean Wise
      June 29, 2018
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  • Shoreline Cleanup
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    • New Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup video highlights issue of shoreline litter. Register this fall at ShorelineCleanup.ca.

      Startling Video Brings New Meaning to Shoreline Litter

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      September 3, 2013
      Shoreline Cleanup, Videos
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    • Citizen Science Informs Government ban of Single-Use Plastics

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      November 10, 2020
    • Thousands of Canadians Took on the Cleanup Challenge

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      October 14, 2020
    • Join the “Cleanup Across Canada” challenge with #TeamShoreline

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      September 23, 2020
    • Clean Shoreline Communities: municipalities as leaders in the fight against plastic pollution

      Ocean Wise
      July 31, 2020
    • Ocean Wise applauds Government of Canada’s commitment to protect 30% of the world’s ocean by 2030

      Ocean Wise
      July 21, 2020
    • #TeamShoreline needs your help reaching one million citizens by September

      Ocean Wise
      July 13, 2020
  • Ocean Wise Research
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      Stranded Pacific White-Sided Dolphins Outside Campbell River

      Marine Mammal Research
      August 26, 2011
      Research Site - CORI
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    • Monitoring by Ocean Wise, and others, leads to listing of Sunflower Sea Stars as Critically Endangered

      Ocean Wise
      January 13, 2021
    • Monitoring killer whale body condition amidst a pandemic

      Marine Mammal Research
      November 18, 2020
    • An Underwater Art Gallery… for Fish?

      Ocean Wise
      November 18, 2020
    • The Good Kind of Research Flukes

      Marine Mammal Research
      November 10, 2020
    • Ocean Not Immune to Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic

      Ocean Wise
      October 29, 2020
    • Can Whales Mitigate Climate Change? Whales and the Carbon Cycle

      Marine Mammal Research
      September 30, 2020
  • Whale Sightings
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    • Here's the Skinny on Having a Whale Wise Summer

      Wild Whales
      August 5, 2014
      Whale Sightings
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    • The Good Kind of Research Flukes

      Marine Mammal Research
      November 10, 2020
    • The BCCSN Welcomes BC Ferries to the Whale Trail

      Sarah Wilson
      September 10, 2020
    • And the Award for Top Cetacean Reporter Goes To…

      Wild Whales
      July 23, 2020
    • Ocean Wise recognizes top ‘whale reporters’ of 2019

      Ocean Wise
      July 21, 2020
    • Unexpected Urban Whales: City Slicker Cetaceans Sighted During Coronavirus

      Wild Whales
      July 14, 2020
    • A Mother’s Love: Killer Whale Culture

      Marine Mammal Research
      May 8, 2020

Marine Mammal Rescue

The Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre is a hospital for sick, injured or orphaned marine mammals. The Rescue Centre rescues abandoned mammals and rehabilitates them for release back into their natural habitat. Donate to the Rescue Centre at www.vanaqua.org/act/direct-action/marine-mammal-rescue

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Marine Mammal Rescue

Springer’s Success Story

Ocean Wise
February 19, 2019
Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium, Whale Sightings
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In 2002, an orphaned killer whale, Springer (A73), brought together scientists, government officials and concerned citizens in the first orca recovery effort of its kind. Seventeen years after Springer’s rescue...

Meet Vet Fellow Megan Strobel

Ocean Wise
October 17, 2018
Marine Mammal Rescue, Vancouver Aquarium
Megan Strobel’s favourite animals show her roots. As a Florida girl, she grew up watching bottlenose dolphins from shore. As an undergraduate student at University of Florida, she worked on another favourite an...

Saving Scarlet

Ocean Wise
August 15, 2018
Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium
The Vancouver Aquarium, as part of a cross-border team of organizations and institutions, is on a mission to save an ailing Southern Resident Killer Whale. On August 9, Vancouver Aquarium’s head veterinarian Dr...

A Mother’s Love

Ocean Wise
May 10, 2018
Aquablog, Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Whale Sightings
Much like humans, mothers play an important role in killer whale culture. Killer whales are highly social, group-living animals whose social structure revolves around females. For some members of the animal kin...

Rescued, Rehabilitated, Released: A Shark’s Story

Ocean Wise
February 16, 2018
Marine Mammal Rescue, Ocean Wise, Research - Vancouver Aquarium Research, Vancouver Aquarium
2
Last August, the Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre received a call about  a distressed fish on the beach in Stanley Park, Vancouver. Luckily, the Vancouver Aquarium’s Veterinary and Fishes teams ...

Remembering Chester

Vancouver Aquarium
November 24, 2017
Marine Mammal Rescue, Vancouver Aquarium
2
It was an incredible feat of determination on both the part of the animal and his rescuers when Chester the false killer whale survived his stranding on a windswept beach near Tofino in July 2014. Although he h...

Rescued Sea Otter Pup Hardy Moves Into Nursery At Vancouver Aquarium

Vancouver Aquarium
July 31, 2017
Marine Mammal Rescue, Vancouver Aquarium
Hardy, the male sea otter pup rescued in June from waters near northern Vancouver Island, has now moved into the nursery at the Vancouver Aquarium, an Ocean Wise initiative, to continue receiving 24-hour care f...

Tiny Male Otter Pup Patient in our Care

Vancouver Aquarium
June 28, 2017
Marine Mammal Rescue
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A tiny male sea otter pup — estimated to be just two to four weeks old — is now in 24-hour care at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Centre, after concerned members of the public found it swimming alo...
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