Offers news and opinion from Canadian and international media reports on Oceans (fisheries, ocean health and aquaculture) and Fresh Water (hydropower, water and hydrocarbons, privatization, scarcity).

Tides Canada has created the Salmon Aquaculture Innovation Fund to help develop alternative models to traditional open-net aquaculture, with the goal of protecting wild salmon while building a viable, sustainable aquaculture industry.

Mangrove forests, which grow in tropical intertidal areas and estuary mouths, constitute a critical habitat for a diverse marine ecology, but are rapidly disappearing and degrading as a result of development, charcoal and timber industries, and a burgeoning, unregulated shrimp/prawn farming industry. MAP's 400 NGOs and 250 scientists from 60 nations are engaged in the restoration and protection of mangrove forests, in education, and in working towards a sustainable aquaculture through regulation and eco-friendly practices.

Biologist Alexandra Morton studied the orca and dolphins off British Columbia's coast, and gradually became alarmed at the decline in local whale populations, eventually becoming a whistle-blower to alert the public and governments to the threats to indigenous whale and fish species. Argues fervently against unregulated, open netcage aquaculture. See also her blog.