Legal Challenge to DFO's Herring Fishery Management
Dear Minister Thompson, The attached letter to you is part of a long-standing effort to bring DFO’s mismanagement of the Pacific herring fishery to the Minister’s attention, and to achieve a pause in harvesting in both the winter and spring fisheries, so the dangerously declining herring…
ADIMS 2025 Annual General Meeting
Notice of Annual General Meeting Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025, 4:00 PM ADIMS members, donors, and the general public are welcome to join us via Zoom on your computer or smart phone: — LINK will be published shortly — Meeting ID: TBD | Passcode: TBD For connecting via landline, dial by…
One for ADIMS: Goodbye Shellfish Predator Netting in Estuaries
ADIMS would like to thank Tony Gregson for his excellent article in the September 12th issue of The Barnacle, where he correctly states that: "Under the 2025 iteration of the Conditions of Licence for shellfish tenures in Baynes Sound, DFO (Department of Fisheries and Oceans) requires that…
Suspend the Strait of Georgia Herring Fisheries
Dear the Integrated Herring Harvest Planning Committee (IHHPC), The following comments are submitted jointly by Pacific Wild Alliance, Conservancy Hornby Island, Herring Conservation and Research Society, Saanich Inlet Protection Society, Bowen Island Conservancy, Association for Denman Island…
Voice your concern about Intertidal Geoduck in Baynes Sound!
To provide feedback on the intertidal geoduck application put forth by Mac’s Oysters Ltd. (Crown Land File # 0278767), please click the following link and voice your concerns before February 18th:
Applications, Comments & Reasons for Decision (gov.bc.ca)
Sign our Parliamentary Petition!
ADIMS has started an e-petition, which asks the government to postpone any further shellfish aquaculture expansion into herring spawning and rearing habitat and to develop a co-management plan with First Nations in Baynes Sound/Lambert Channel. We need at least 500 signatures to have the…
Call for a Moratorium on the Herring Fishery, Dorrie Woodward
Dorrie Woodward for Assn for Denman Island Marine Stewards
Thank you Denise McKean for organizing this letter writing effort!
Herring spawn 2019: a time of anticipation, a time of mourning
by Barbara Mills The local Pacific herring spawn is an amazing, almost spiritual event. It is one of the great migrations left on earth and reminds us of the amazing cycle of nature at its best. Millions of herring arrive, accompanied by the array of creatures of air and sea that they serve to…
Why we clean up the beaches
Sussan Thompson explores an island's commitment to protecting and restoring its ocean environment. Her video examines the philosophies and principles behind the sheer hard work of the annual beach cleanup, which pulls 6 tons of mostly plastic waste and debris off Denman Island's shores. Yes, every…
Zooplankton and Microplastics: a research project begins
Research Scientists meet with ADIMS and KFN Guardian Watchmen on Denman Island by Barbara Mills Governments change, and government bureaucracies often evolve too slowly to address even the most urgent needs of a community and the environmental ecosystems that sustain them. Often…