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    • Innovative Seafood Farming: The RAS Perspective

      Ocean Wise
      May 25, 2020
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    • L’importance de l’adhésion au programme Ocean Wise Seafood

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      April 6, 2021
    • LIVRE DE CUISINE NUMÉRIQUE D’OCEAN WISE SEAFOOD: CUISINER POUR LA CONSERVATION

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    • POISSON D’AVRIL #CestWise

      Ocean Wise
      April 1, 2021
    • UNE ALIMENTATION RÉPARATRICE POUR L’AVENIR

      Ocean Wise
      March 31, 2021
    • Local Teens Hope to Inspire Shoreline Cleanups in March with Restaurant Gift Cards

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      March 5, 2021
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      March 3, 2021
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    • An Otter-ly Energetic Introduction: Katmai Meets Rialto, Mak, and Kunik

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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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    • 10 Tips for Organizing a Sustainable Event

      Ocean Wise
      February 7, 2018
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      Ocean Wise
      December 11, 2020
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    • 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
    • Vancouver Aquarium Transformation

      Sarah Ellam
      August 31, 2020
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    • Smackin' Lips at the Third Annual Ceviche Smackdown

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      June 19, 2012
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    • L’importance de l’adhésion au programme Ocean Wise Seafood

      Ocean Wise
      April 6, 2021
    • LIVRE DE CUISINE NUMÉRIQUE D’OCEAN WISE SEAFOOD: CUISINER POUR LA CONSERVATION

      Ocean Wise
      April 2, 2021
    • POISSON D’AVRIL #CestWise

      Ocean Wise
      April 1, 2021
    • UNE ALIMENTATION RÉPARATRICE POUR L’AVENIR

      Ocean Wise
      March 31, 2021
    • Ocean Wise Responds to the Seaspiracy film

      Ocean Wise
      March 26, 2021
    • $35K raised during National Chowder Chowdown Festival Fundraiser

      Ocean Wise
      March 12, 2021
  • Education
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    • Ocean Wise is celebrating ‘World Oceans Day’ for the entire month of June!

      Ocean Wise
      June 3, 2020
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    • Local Teens Hope to Inspire Shoreline Cleanups in March with Restaurant Gift Cards

      Ocean Wise
      March 5, 2021
    • 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
    • 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
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    • Winnipegger on guard for oceans: Ocean Bridge’s Kirsten Desorcy profiled in Manitoba newspaper

      Ocean Wise
      May 3, 2020
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      The Vancouver Aquarium and Canada's Arctic

      Eric Solomon
      November 28, 2011
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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
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    • 2020 Wrapped: A Year for the Ocean

      Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
      January 26, 2021
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      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
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    • Quiet Oceans: Has the COVID-19 crisis reduced noise in whale habitats?

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      April 11, 2020
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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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    • Sightings Network Vancouver Aquarium

      Whale Watching on The Whale Trail

      Vancouver Aquarium
      September 1, 2015
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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

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Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Butt Blitz

Giving New Life to Shoreline Litter

Vancouver Aquarium
May 16, 2015
Shoreline Cleanup
From plastic bottles to aluminum cans, food wrappers to plastic cutlery and the occasional pair of false teeth, we find a little bit of everything on shorelines across Canada. One important fact, however, remai...
Cleaning up shorelines with the Vancouver Aquarium

Contest Winner Diverts Nearly 2,000 Cigarette Butts from Landfill

Vancouver Aquarium
December 16, 2014
Shoreline Cleanup
Cigarette butts are the most commonly found item on shoreline cleanups across Canada. In 2013 alone, over 300,000 were collected on shoreline cleanups from coast to coast. Rather than send them all off to landf...
Terracycle recycle cigarette butts from Canadian shorelines.

Getting Butts Off Our Beaches with TerraCycle

Vancouver Aquarium
August 5, 2014
Shoreline Cleanup
TerraCycle and Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited, began working together in 2012, and with the help of over 58,000 volunteers annually, have recycled over 460,000 cigarette...

Saving our Waters, One Butt at a Time

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup
October 30, 2013
Shoreline Cleanup
In 2012, the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup collected more than 419,000 cigarette butts from shorelines across Canada, over 25 per cent of which were diverted to TerraCycle's Cigarette Waste Brigade program. ...

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