A new study suggests that cold-water fjords on British Columbia’s Central Coast could be a marine refuge for threatened sunflower sea stars, which have been hit hard by sea star wasting disease. But ...

The star, Pycnopodia helianthoides, reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms. But it disintegrates in a few ...

A team of oceanographers and marine biologists at the Hakai Institute, working with a colleague from the Central Coast ...

Stretching for more than 250 miles along the coast of British Columbia, the 21-million-acre ... and glacier-cut fjords. This remote expanse is home to many First Nations communities as well ...

As glacier-carved fjords drain with the ebb tide into Queen ... rich herring population primarily for the roe. This major British Columbia fishery crashed in the 1960s as a result of overfishing.

A new study published this month says the cold-water fjords on B.C.'s central coast might hold a key to sea star survival by ...