Video Gallery – Association for Denman Island Marine Stewards

The Hidden Cost of Clam Farming

We hired divers to make underwater videos so everyone could see what happens when clam-farming nets are abandoned and mismanaged. Please share these videos and our webpage www.adims.ca/netting/ to help raise awareness of the environmental and entanglement risks posed by anti-predator netting. Stay connected to support our campaign to remove nets from intertidal zones in Baynes Sound. (1 min)

Let’s Ban the Use of Predator Nets in Shellfish Farming

The Environmental Risks of Ghost Nets from Shellfish Aquaculture

Video produced by Steve Hawkins Videography for ADIMS and Conservancy Hornby Island

It’s time for a moratorium on commercial herring fisheries in the Strait of Georgia. Please help support the W̱SÁNEĆ First Nation in their legal challenge to DFO’s mismanagement of this vital fish stock. (2 min 20 sec)

Interview with Hereditary Chief, W̱ićkinem, Eric Pelkey, by Steve Hawkins Videography

Hereditary Chief of the Tsawout First Nation, W̱ićkinem, Eric Pelkey, is interviewed during Herring Fest on Hornby Island in March 2026. He describes the importance of herring, why herring are at risk, and what you can do to support herring recovery. (6 min)

“Herring in the Salish Sea” produced by Pacific Wild

A century of industrial overharvesting has left Pacific herring populations up and down the B.C. coast in a perilous state. This has profoundly impacted First Nations culture and coastal economies, and has left whole ecosystems without their critical, foundational food supply. (3 min 44 sec)

Herring Spawn – Fillongley Beach – 2015

Carol Hunter captures the excitement and wonder of the annual herring spawn around Denman Island, in the Strait of Georgia. This is the largest remaining herring spawn on the west coast of Canada. (8 min)

Annual Big Beach Cleanup on Denman Island, 2017

Sussan Thomson documents Denman Islanders collecting, sorting, and recycling the 4.5 metric tons of debris, mostly from the aquaculture industry, that washes up on their beaches every year. (8 min)

Baynes Sound: A Lot To Be Lost

Scientists take us on a tour of Baynes Sound, showing us it’s precious ecological features and sharing their concern about the growing threats of industry and development. (9 min 30 sec)

MP Gord Johns presents ADIMS Parliamentary Petition

MP Gord Johns presents parliamentary petition to Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Canada to demand greater protections for herring rearing and spawning habitat in Baynes Sound and Lambert Channel. (1 min 20 sec)

Aquaculture & microplastics: We can heal Denman Island & Baynes Sound

A drone flies up the shoreline in Baynes Sound, between Denman Island and Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. A description of the ecological effects of development in the Sound explains what the viewer is seeing. (3 min)

Ramona de Graaf

Scientist and forage fish expert Ramona de Graaf teaches us about the spawning habitat of Pacific sand lance and surf smelt and why protecting it is the key to sustaining salmon populations on the coast. For more go to Our Waters/Forage Fish. (10 min)

Curating Cleaner Waters youth program on Denman Island

A creative group of youth participated in a Beach Cleanup production called “Curating Cleaner Waters” under the direction of Jamie Black who runs the Wild Craft Play ‘sCool program. (1 min 38 sec)

Herring deaths on Denman Island blamed on clam nets

Nets that havve been placed along portions of Denman Island’s shoreline to protect clam tenures are today being blamed for the deaths of hundreds of herring. CTV News, 7 March 2013. (2 min 47 sec)

Shellfish aquaculture gear litters Denman Island

Every year gear from the shellfish aquaculture industry gathers on the shores of Denman Island, especially after winter storms. CTV News. 7 Jan 2013 (2 min 50 sec)