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    • Weekly Ocean News

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      June 22, 2018
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    • Beyond Seafood: Sustainability at Ricky’s Restaurants

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      December 6, 2019
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      November 8, 2019
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      Ocean Wise
      November 5, 2019
    • Sustainable Seafood Arrives Coast-to-Coast in Canada

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      October 18, 2019
    • Pilot Program Conducts Ocean Plastics Workshop with Youth from Nunavut’s Pond Inlet

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      October 4, 2019
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    • Rescued, Rehabilitated, Released: A Shark's Story

      Ocean Wise
      February 16, 2018
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      April 12, 2019
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      March 6, 2019
    • Springer’s Success Story

      Ocean Wise
      February 19, 2019
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      October 17, 2018
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      December 10, 2014
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      Ocean Wise
      November 7, 2019
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      October 29, 2019
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      Ocean Wise
      October 18, 2019
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      Ocean Wise
      September 19, 2019
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    • Go Deep and Dark at Vancouver Aquarium’s After Hours Hallowe’en

      Ocean Wise
      September 19, 2019
    • Rescued Northern sea otter Tazlina jets in from Alaska

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      September 9, 2019
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    • Beyond Seafood: Sustainability at Ricky’s Restaurants

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      December 6, 2019
    • Foraging the Ocean: Hand-harvesting Delicacies

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    • In search of “The Better Fish”: Barramundi

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      November 5, 2019
    • A Calamari Quest

      Ocean Wise
      November 4, 2019
    • Sustainable Seafood Arrives Coast-to-Coast in Canada

      Sarah Ellam
      October 18, 2019
    • A Taste of Sustainability

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      August 30, 2019
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      August 31, 2018
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      October 3, 2019
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      September 20, 2019
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      Ocean Wise
      September 19, 2019
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    • How to Inspire Home Learners of All Ages

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      September 17, 2019
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      April 2, 2019
    • Faces of Ocean Bridge 2019 (Part 2)

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      April 1, 2019
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      January 23, 2016
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    • Pilot Program Conducts Ocean Plastics Workshop with Youth from Nunavut’s Pond Inlet

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      October 4, 2019
    • Diving in the Arctic Unknown

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      August 22, 2018
    • Innovation in the High Arctic

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      August 14, 2018
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      Ocean Wise
      June 29, 2018
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    • Celebrating Ice Algae on Polar Bear Day

      Ocean Wise
      February 27, 2018
    • What Counts as “Arctic?”

      Ocean Wise
      February 12, 2018
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      Startling Video Brings New Meaning to Shoreline Litter

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      September 3, 2013
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      Ocean Wise
      November 26, 2019
    • What a Summer! Reconnecting Toronto to Shorelines

      Ocean Wise
      November 18, 2019
    • Shoreline cleanups happen everywhere – even in the Arctic!

      Ocean Wise
      November 5, 2019
    • Showing up for shorelines and breaking records

      Ocean Wise
      October 3, 2019
    • Ocean Bridge ambassador founds Project Snorkel

      Ocean Wise
      September 20, 2019
    • Interview with Shoreline Cleanup volunteer Vanessa Fladmark

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      May 2, 2019
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      April 8, 2016
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    • DNA: A Key piece in the puzzle of Killer Whale Conservation

      Ocean Wise
      November 8, 2019
    • A Whale of a Season — Part 2

      Ocean Wise
      October 3, 2019
    • Welcome to Ocean Watch: BC Coast edition

      Ocean Wise
      August 30, 2019
    • A Whale of a Season – Part 1

      Marine Mammal Research
      July 25, 2019
    • Shedding Light on the Local Kelp Environment

      Ocean Wise
      October 19, 2018
    • “Mom, Can You Hear Me?”

      Ocean Wise
      September 21, 2018
  • Whale Sightings
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    • Here's the Skinny on Having a Whale Wise Summer

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    • A Whale of a Season – Part 1

      Marine Mammal Research
      July 25, 2019
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      Ocean Wise
      April 25, 2019
    • Springer’s Success Story

      Ocean Wise
      February 19, 2019
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    • A Mother’s Love

      Ocean Wise
      May 10, 2018
    • Drawing a Humpback Whale, All 14 Metres

      Ocean Wise
      December 1, 2017
    • Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program Marks 25th Anniversary

      Ocean Wise
      October 26, 2017

Whale Sightings

In collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Vancouver Aquarium’s BC Cetacean Sightings Network collects data on cetaceans and sea turtles in British Columbia. Public sightings are reported by residents, boaters and professionals and are used to inform research, conservation and recovery actions. Report your sighting to 1 866 I SAW ONE, www.wildwhales.org or [email protected]

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A Whale of a Season – Part 1

Marine Mammal Research
July 25, 2019
Aquablog, Research Initiative - Biology, Ecology, and Health of Marine Mammals, Research Site - CORI, Whale Sightings
Returning from the pilot season of its drone-based killer whale study along the central coast of British Columbia, Ocean Wise’s Marine Mammal Research team marked the sixth year of its photogrammetry project, ...

Bigg’s Killer Whales Hunting Seals in Vancouver Harbour

Ocean Wise
April 25, 2019
Whale Sightings
Vancouver, B.C. – For the second time in as many weeks, a group of Bigg’s, or transient killer whales, swam into the Vancouver Harbour yesterday to hunt seals. Bigg’s killer whales, unlike resident killer whale...

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...

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...

Drawing a Humpback Whale, All 14 Metres

Ocean Wise
December 1, 2017
Aquablog, Education, Ocean Wise, Vancouver Aquarium, Whale Sightings
Inside a half-renovated garage in Squamish, BC, a grade-six student poured the last light of every school day into one huge project: a life-sized drawing of a humpback whale. The days were growing shorter, the ...

Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program Marks 25th Anniversary

Ocean Wise
October 26, 2017
Ocean Wise, Research Site - CORI, Whale Sightings
Since 1992, the Wild Killer Whale Adoption Program has supported ground-breaking research by the Marine Mammal Research Program at the Coastal Ocean Research Institute, an Ocean Wise initiative. In the past, th...
Killer whale research Vancouver Aquarium

And Thus, the Cetacean Research Program was Born

Vancouver Aquarium
June 16, 2016
Vancouver Aquarium, Videos, Whale Sightings
Summer after summer, tourists and locals alike flock to coastal B.C. for the chance to glimpse killer whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, humpback whales and other marine mammals in their natural environment....

The 411 on the Humpback Whale in English Bay

Vancouver Aquarium
April 26, 2016
Whale Sightings
There’s been a lot of excitement in Vancouver over the sightings of a young humpback whale who’s been making regular appearances in English Bay. While we on the West Coast are used to encounters with wildlife —...
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