Coasts & Oceans
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CWF Senior Conservation Manager Comments on Atlantic Fisheries Closure - Video
2025-12-05
Closure to take effect in several areas today after North Atlantic Right Whales spotted
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Ghost gear complicates whale migrations and rescues
2025-12-05
As scientists try to disentangle three North Atlantic right whales, DFO and the Coast Guard are out looking for lost fishing gear. Six whale deaths have been reported since early June. Sean Brillant is a senior conservation biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
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Fishing Industry and Others Look to Gear Innovations to Reduce Whale Deaths
2025-12-05
Promising innovations in lobster and crab gear could reduce whale entanglements while still sustaining local economies and traditional cultures. To learn more, Peter Baker, who directs The Pew Charitable Trusts’ work on this issue, spoke with Sean Brillant, senior conservation biologist with the Canadian Wildlife Federation, and Elizabeth Baker, fisheries engagement specialist with the federation.
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Has this researcher built a better lobster trap?
2025-12-05
Sean Brilliant is developing new trap systems, to reduce entanglements while meeting needs of fishers. ‘These things work, it’s not science fiction.’
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Why Atlantic Canada's lucrative seafood industry is concerned about Elizabeth Warren
2025-12-05
Environmentalist Sean Brillant of the Canadian Wildlife Federation defends the measures. "I believe the actions that have been taken and are continuing to be taken by Canada are sound and deserve some acknowledgement that these are good decisions," he said.
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How Understanding the Distribution of Fishing Gear Can Help Protect Whales
2025-12-05
Entanglement of marine animals in commercial fishing gear is unfortunately not a new problem.
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Innovative ropeless fishing gear helps prevent whale entanglements
2025-12-05
When fishing zones get closed down due to whale sightings, fish harvesters now have a new place to turn. Can Fish is a program set up by the Canadian Wildlife Federation to allow fishers to test out and use groundbreaking ropeless technology for free.
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What Does #GivingTuesday Mean for Wildlife (and You)?
2025-12-05
It’s #GivingTuesday. #GivingTuesday is a day when we think not of packages and bows, but of those in need this season.
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Two-day Halifax fishing gear summit aims to reduce right whale entanglement
2025-12-05
A total of 250 stakeholders will participate in the two-day summit, which kicked off on Tuesday. It will include panel discussions, exhibits, and other programming that focuses on reducing fishing gear interactions with marine mammals — especially the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
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Are we doing enough to protect Canada's wildlife?
2025-12-05
The United Nations warns that 1 million species worldwide are at risk of extinction
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