Land Rover owners are taking legal action over allegedly fragile glass One driver claims their Defender went though seven busted windshields A similar attempt to bring this issue to court was ...

Glass sponges are fragile, long-lived lifeforms that can be damaged by prawn traps. Marine conservationists in Howe Sound are asking prawners to voluntarily avoid known reef sites.

The fragile glass sponge reefs of the Pacific Northwest are rarities in the world of ocean diversity. They were thought to be extinct until a discovery by Natural Resources Canada in 1987.

It takes an experienced deep-water diver like Hamish Tweed to reach most of the glass sponge reefs. You have to descend more than 60 metres into the depths of B.C.'s Howe Sound where, even in the ...

Canada’s largest commercial fishermen’s organization says it will fight the federal government over its expected decision to ban fishing near fragile glass-sponge reefs in B.C.’s Hecate ...

Glass sponge reefs are highly fragile, grow slowly and take a long time to recover once damaged, making them particularly vulnerable to impacts from these types of fishing gear.

The fragile glass sponges of the Hecate Strait grow are tubular structures whose shape allows them to filter nutrients from seawater. They are only known to form reefs in the waters off the B.C ...

The department says in a statement that the fragile glass sponge reefs are some of the most biologically productive reefs and provide habitat to more than 84 species including prawns and rockfish.