A Line in the Water
An inside look at the dispute over the herring grounds off P.E.I.
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What does a lobster do all day?
A new science project in the waters around P.E.I. may shed some light into the mysterious world of the lobster. Canada Now's Nancy Russell meets researchers who are putting tiny radio transmitters on almost 200 of the crustaceans. (runs 6:10)
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All about salmon
A primer on our favourite fish.
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Dire Strait
The decline of Lobster Fishing Area 25
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INDEPTH: FISHING
CBC News Online | May 4, 2004
For centuries, fishing has been central to the economy of Atlantic Canada. In the last couple of years, however, fishing in the region has become synonymous with conflict. It all revolved around a decision from Canada's top court, and a variety of interpretations of that ruling.
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Against the tide
The fishery has helped sustain the Acadians of Isle Madame in Cape Breton. Now the community is working to keep jobs and its French language from vanishing with the outgoing tide.
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Dangerous waters
Seven fishermen in Nova Scotia left home for work last year and never returned. Reporter Sophia Harris asks why fishermen keep dying on the job.
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Following a dream, and tuna, with electronic tagging
Following giant tunas as they move across the ocean has always been a challenge. A decade ago, the thought of tagging and tracking more than 1,000 bluefin tunas was only a dream. Now it's been done, and an even more ambitious goal of following thousands of open-ocean predators representing two dozen marine species across the North Pacific has been initiated.
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Harp Seals @ National Geographic Magazine
Wolves of the sea to fishermen and cause célèbre for anti-fur activists, the irresistible animals are raising tempers again.
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The Marshall Decision and the Maritime Canadian Fishery
The Marshall Decision and the Maritime Canadian Fishery
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Turning Miners Into Custodians
By Kenneth Green
Headlines about fishery fiascos in Canada are nothing new: the fisheries that have been historically most important, salmon on the west coast and cod on the east coast, have been in trouble for years. In 1991, the cod stocks collapsed and a fishing moratorium, which has yet to be lifted, was declared. Before the collapse of the cod stocks, it was clear that there was substantial over-capacity and over-fishing in the Atlantic fisheries. It has been estimated that in the near-shore Scotia-Fundy fleet alone there was four times the fleet capacity required to harvest the total catch.
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INDEPTH: SALMON
Something fishy about farmed salmon?
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GARMIN's GPS Guide for beginners
GPS Guide for beginners *Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader software (Version 3+)
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CBC - Crab Crisis
As the spring ice breaks up in small harbours along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, crab boat captains prepare to launch the richest fishery on the east coast – one that generates the fiercest opposition to management or quota changes.
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Lobster Project 2002
Larval, Drift and Temperature Studies in LFA's 31A and 31B
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CBC Radio - Fish in a barrel
The Millbrook First Nation has spent the last year building its aquaculture and horticulture business. Reporter Bob Murphy gets a tour.
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Stright-MacKay: Leading the Pack Using the Internet to enhance customer service and sales
Are you still not sure how the Internet can help you and your business? Do you still need to be convinced that all the hype actually results in any concrete benefits? Well then, consider the business evolution of Stright-MacKay.
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The Impact of Social Insurance on the Length of the Fishing Season
The Impact of Social Insurance on the Length of the Fishing Season by Noel Roy
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The Newfoundland Fishery: A Descriptive Analysis
The Newfoundland Fishery: A Descriptive Analysis
by Noel Roy
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How many fish in the sea? About 20,000 species
CTV.ca News Staff
Scientists working on a huge census of the world's oceans have discovered there are an estimated 5,000 previously unknown marine fish species, and hundreds of thousands of other marine life forms yet to be discovered.
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CBC Radio - Lucrative lobster...Dumping for riches in southwest Nova Scotia
Catch a lobster, buy a house.
It's a simple plan for thousands of fishermen hoping to make a decent living trapping lobster.
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The National Online - The Fishery- The Politics of Cod
Centuries ago the cod was called the breadbasket of the sea. Even 20 years ago the cod seemed endless. In those years, the federal Department of Fisheries was formed and the number of fishermen in Newfoundland nearly tripled. Now cod are close to commercial extinction at least and often best viewed in an aquarium.
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To the last fish - The codless sea
In the Newfoundland lexicon, cod still means fish, even if the stocks are devastated and the people who depended on them have been forced to move on.
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Fish Farm Flap
Two sides are circling for a fight: an industry that wants to farm fish, and the people who want to save wild salmon. And then there's the B.C. government...
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The last lobster
Lobster catches in the Northumberland Strait have declined to the point that many wonder if the stock will survive. Reporter Tom Murphy takes an indepth look.
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The Fundamentals of GPS
What exactly is GPS?
By now, most of us have come into contact with some form of GPS. They are in our cars, sometimes on the dashboard and sometimes in the glove compartment; they’re making their way into our cell phones and even being attached to children. Oh, the humanity!
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Maritime Shipbuilding
Another Sunset Industry?
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Songs of the Land and the Sea
A Series
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The realm of Neptune - The Census of Marine Life
Robin Rowland, CBC News Online | November 12, 2003
There's an old question. How many fish are there in the sea?
There's a new answer – 15,304 species of fish – and the scientists are still counting.
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What is WAAS?
Okay, so what the heck is it? Basically, it's a system of satellites and ground stations that provide GPS signal corrections, giving you even better position accuracy. How much better? Try an average of up to five times better. A WAAS-capable receiver can give you a position accuracy of better than three meters 95 percent of the time. And you don't have to purchase additional receiving equipment or pay service fees to utilize WAAS.
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Weather Basics
What is a storm? We've determined that swells are made by wind, and wind comes from storms. But what really is a storm? Well, let's start with some basics. Air covers the surface of our planet and has mass, that is, it has weight and volume, and it can be made to move. That's fairly obvious. But what causes it to move?
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