Who We Are
The roles of the Centre are to report on stock status, evaluate stresses on fish populations and habitats, promote the use of state of the art science and technology, and to provide a forum for information sharing and participation with stakeholders. The Centre also plays an important role in offering management recommendations to promote sustainable fisheries and resolve conflict.
The A/OFRC has established a solid working relationship with First Nations, provincial agencies and community organizations by earning a reputation as a trusted independent source of fisheries information. We will continue to strive to maintain and strengthen these relationships in any future endeavours.
News Release: Attention Anglers
For any tagged harvested Lake Sturgeon, we ask for the tags to be turned in to the Lands and Resources Department at the Garden River Band Office. Read the full report here: Attention Anglers
News Release: Thessalon First Nation
In partnership with Thessalon First Nation, A/OFRC crews completed a Wetland Turtle and Amphibian Survey. This project took place from April 2017 - September 2017. For more information, contact 705-472-7888. A copy of the News [...]
News Release: Curve Lake First Nation
In partnership with Curve Lake First Nation, A/OFRC crews will be completing a Wild Rice and Fish Habitat Survey on Pigeon Lake. This project will be taking place the last week of July 2017. For [...]
Fishy News
- Minister Lebouthillier announces major funding to protect and better detect the presence of ...The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier Minister of Fisheries Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard will hold a press conference to announce major ... Read more »
- Minister Lebouthillier announces major funding to protect and better detect the presence of ...The Honourable Diane Lebouthillier, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, will hold a press conference to announce major ... Read more »
- Interview: the EU Algae initiative helps fishers become ocean farmers - Euronews.comDespite marine management efforts over decades Europe's fish stocks are still under pressure. The EU is supporting fishers turning to seaweed ... Read more »
- Downward spiral for Atlantic cod continues in Gulf of St. Lawrence - Yahoo News CanadaAtlantic cod stocks are showing no signs of rebounding in the Gulf of St. Lawrence five years after a DFO assessment said the species' extinction ... Read more »
- Downward spiral for Atlantic cod continues in Gulf of St. Lawrence - Yahoo News UKDaniel Ricard is a biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Daniel Ricard is a biologist with Fisheries and Oceans ... Read more »
- Canadian Coast Guard inshore rescue boat stations resume operations across QuebecFisheries and Oceans Canada Quebec Region media.qc@dfo-mpo.gc ... Follow Fisheries and Oceans Canada on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Read more »
- 'A hard conversation' about Atlantic salmon farms | The NarwhalInternal emails show Fisheries and Oceans Canada officials were concerned how a risk assessment of Atlantic salmon aquaculture would be taken by ... Read more »
- Downward spiral for Atlantic cod continues in Gulf of St. Lawrence | CBC NewsFisheries and Oceans Canada issued a warning five years ago saying extinction of the species in the gulf was not just possible, but probable. The ... Read more »
- Why unregulated fishing remains a challenge in Africa - The Standard SportsThe uninterrupted coastline of the Indian Ocean's eastern seaboard is one of the most robbed of abundant fish stocks by IUU. Read more »
- Science vs science - POLITICOMinister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Diane Lebouthillier rises during Question Period. Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier ... Read more »
- BRIAN HODDER: How spreading misinformation tanked the N.L. seal harvest | SaltWire... Canada · NEWSLETTERS ... The experience of the seal harvest here in Atlantic Canada ... Last week, the Senate Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans ... Read more »
- 'I don't know if this was a warning shot': Cape Breton Indigenous lobster fisher says traps sabotagedNeither the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) nor the Kwilmu'kw Maw-klusuaqn were able to comment in time for print deadline. Read more »
- Downward spiral for Atlantic cod continues in Gulf of St. Lawrence - CBCThat bump has slowed the predicted rate of decline, but the decline continues. Image | Daniel Ricard Fisheries and Oceans Canada DFO biologist. Read more »
- New cod migration data suggests commercial fishing could return someday, says researcherThe co-author of a new study in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries ... In October, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans ... Canada purchasing 16 new ... Read more »
- Rio Tinto Diavik to install aerator to support biodiversity in Yellowknife's Frame LakeThe project is being managed under Diavik mine's Fisheries Authorization with Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada as the mine moves towards ... Read more »
- Aquaculture: activists push an imaginary problem with an imaginary disease - SeaWest NewsThe Namgis, perennial opponents of ocean-based aquaculture that helps prop up their floundering land-based fish farm, recently served notice that it ... Read more »
- 'Trap after trap, they cut the mesh off': Cape Breton Indigenous lobster fisher says traps sabotaged... fish for a moderate livelihood. Neither the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) nor the Kwilmu'kw Maw-klusuaqn were able to ... Read more »
- Will Canada gamble Pacific salmon on DFO science? - The Hill TimesBut in Canada, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) appears captured by the aquaculture industry. Instead of protecting and conserving wild ... Read more »
- Science and the Sea Open House - Times Colonist EventsCelebrate Ocean Week Canada at the Institute of Ocean Sciences Open House. ... Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Canadian Coast Guard. Learn ... Read more »
- Marine collagen is all the rage in anti-aging. What does that mean for fish?But with overfishing and climate change already threatening global ocean wildlife, is this a sustainable place to turn for anti-aging hope? Read more »