It's been 20 years since Canada's East Coast cod fishery collapsed, and we still have no recovery target or timeline for rebuilding populations. That's just one finding in a damning report from a panel of eminent Royal Society of Canada marine scientists.

Sustaining Canada's Marine Biodiversity notes that Canada has "failed to meet most of our national and international commitments to protect marine biodiversity" and "lags behind other modernized nations in almost every aspect of fisheries management."

Department of Fisheries and Ocean staff scientist Dr. Kristi Miller made waves today at the Cohen inquiry with her eagerly awaited testimony about a 'novel' virus that could be infecting millions of sockeye.

What Miller, a molecular geneticist, originally described in her January 2011 Science publication as salmon leukaemia has been more accurately identified as parvovirus. This is the first time this virus has been seen in salmon, though it is not known how long it has been present in other species.

As May 2 creeps closer, all of our federal parties are looking to solidify your vote. In this race, there are key regions of Canada that each party has been targeting in order to win swing ridings.

B.C. is one of these highly contested regions, with all of the parties giving special attention to our voters, and our issues. But in B.C. there is one issue which has been surprisingly absent from the honeyed tongues of most candidates. And that issue is the future of our wild salmon, and what the federal government plans to do about fish farms.