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Save the Date: National Chowder Chowdown Festival coming February 2021

November 19, 2020

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Delicious sustainable seafood chowders coming to restaurants across Canada this February as Chowder Chowdown fundraiser transforms into national festival. Proceeds support Ocean Wise sustainable seafood progra...

Citizen Science Informs Government ban of Single-Use Plastics

November 10, 2020

Ocean Wise, Shoreline Cleanup

In 2020, oceans and freshwaters across Canada received great news. The federal government announced a ban on six types of single-use plastics, coming into effect in 2021. Part of the data used to inform this d...

Generations of Sustainability in Montreal – the Marina Del Rey Family

November 6, 2020

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November 6th, 2020 “Dad was the son of an Italian immigrant and grew up with 32 first cousins – so, of course, everything he does is in the mindset of family.” – All quotes ar...

Winner of Halloween’s Spookiest Fish Contest

October 31, 2020

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October 31st, 2020 Healthy and flourishing oceans are rich with species, including some incredibly spooky ones. Leading up to Halloween, the Ocean Wise Seafood team asked their followers on Instagram and Fa...

Trick-or-Trash: Ocean Bridge youth creates national Halloween clean-up initiative

October 27, 2020

Ocean Bridge | Portail Océan, Ocean Wise

With trick-or-treating on the backburner this year for some folks, a youth with Ocean Wise's Ocean Bridge program has created a Halloween campaign to encourage people in her community and across Canada to “Tri...

Defining waste in fisheries Part 2: post-harvest losses

October 26, 2020

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October 23rd, 2020 This blog is the second instalment of a two-part series exploring waste in fisheries. Click here to read the first instalment. Producing enough food to feed the people of our planet ...

Ocean Wise Statement of Support for Mi’kmaq Fishers

October 21, 2020

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October 21, 2020 Ocean Wise supports Mi’kmaq harvesters in their right to fish and we are deeply saddened to have watched the situation in Nova Scotia escalate over the past weeks to include the damag...

Collaboration: The Power of Partnership

October 19, 2020

Aquablog, Ocean Wise, Ocean Wise Seafood

COVID and the Terroir Virtual Symposium Whether it be personal or professional, COVID-19 has had a massive impact on all of our lives. As a program whose basi...