“A healthy capelin population means a healthy Atlantic Ocean ecosystem. These forage fish are vital to rebuilding other fish populations, including economically important northern cod.” — Jack Daly, Marine Scientist, Oceana Canada Capelin are small, but their role in the ocean is huge. As climate change shifts when and where they spawn, real-time data is critical. 👉 Learn how E-capelan developed by Observatoire global du Saint-Laurent in partnership with WWF is helping protect this vital specie

Capelin - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Everybody’s fish, everybody’s responsibility. 🐟 Capelin support the ecosystem in the waters of Newfoundland and Labrador, providing food for species like puffins, cod and humpback whales. Fisheries mismanagement has resulted in them also being critically depleted and overfished for the last 30 years. Continuing to fish a species that is languishing in a depleted state is government-sanctioned overfishing and has community-level impacts that can’t be ignored. 84% of Newfoundlanders and Labradori