This story appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Gulf of St. Lawrence is the sum total of everything that rolls downhill. It gathers from rivers whose finger streams ...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada placed a moratorium on herring fishing in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 2022, saying urgent action had to be taken to give the stocks a chance to recover. Three years later, ...

Environment Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has been documenting decreases in annual coastal ice forming in the Gulf of St. Lawrence for more than 20 years. George Karaganis, a senior meteorologist ...

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Massachusetts ranked as the absolutely most Irish place in North America. Prince Edward Island — ...

DFO scientists say they're worried about the health of stocks of snow crab in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. They tend to rise and fall on a 10-year cycle, and are now below average.

Rising dramatically from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, massive, sheer Percé Rock towers off the tip of Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula like a ship at sea. This rugged, windswept region spans 11,714 square ...