Canada Fishing Info

Eric Solomon (right), vice-president, Conservation, Research and Education, Vancouver Aquarium, and Amanda Perry, Regional Manager, Western Canada, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, clean up a part of the shoreline in Vancouver. Armed with gloves and recycling bags, volunteers from coast to coast are scheduled to take part in the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, a conservation initiative by the Vancouver Aquarium. More than one million seabirds and more than 100,000 marine animals are killed each year by shoreline litter, according to the International Coastal Cleanup, organized by U. Since 1986, participants have cleared more than 45 million kilos of trash from more than 273,000 kilometres of shorelines, rivers, lakes, and wetlands during International Coastal Cleanup Day, touted as the largest and most successful volunteer event of its kind. What might appear to be innocuous stray pieces of materials - such as bits of fishing line and nets - have been found encircling the necks of seals and sea lions, and can pose a danger to animals down the road, said Eric Solomon, the Vancouver Aquarium’s vice-president of conservation research and education. read more

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