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 ...

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 — ...

Federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier announced Monday that she’s more than tripling the size of the southern Gulf ...

"She was still in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. "She spent months in that area, and October is when sharks that are in Canada begin to move. That's the last time we heard from her." LeeBeth was caught in ...

In the vast St. Lawrence River, an impressive variety of animals live on the seabed. This group of organisms is called benthos or benthic invertebrates. Choose the meat, liver and heart of young ...

The Canadian island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence offers a mix of rustic cabins, modern townhouses and classic saltbox houses.

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 ...