Hakai Magazine

Established in April 2015, Hakai Magazine delves into the realms of science, society, and the environment through a coastal lens. This publication operates under the Tula Foundation, maintaining its editorial independence while aligning with the foundation's core values of exploration, discovery, and scientific inquiry. The name Hakai is derived from the Hakai Lúxvbálís Conservancy, which is the largest protected marine zone on Canada's west coast, situated approximately 400 kilometers north of Vancouver.

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The First First Responders | Hakai Magazine

Dec 24, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Adrienne Mason

When a ship wrecks on an unfamiliar coastline, an already desperate situation is all the more dire. Blinded by the night, and lost, the captain and crew of the Puritan, a four-masted lumber schooner en route from San Francisco, California, to Port Gamble, Washington, in 1896, faced two agonizing options: abandon ship into the roiling sea and head toward shore through a rock-riddled shoal or stay aboard and hope the hull would hold.
How, Exactly, Could Deep-Sea Mining Benefit All of Humanity? | Hakai Magazine

Dec 19, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Elham Shabahat

When Arvid Pardo, a Maltese diplomat, took the floor at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 1967 and began speaking at length on international law, the room was sparsely populated. Pardo was undeterred. The deep, dark ocean, he said, is the womb of life. “We still bear in our bodies—in our blood, in the salty bitterness of our tears—the marks of this remote past.” With technology fast progressing, “man, the present dominator of the emerged earth, is now returning to the ocean depths.
What’s Next for Deep-Sea Mining? | Hakai Magazine

Dec 17, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Elham Shabahat

Earlier this year, Leticia Carvalho, a Brazilian oceanographer and environmental policy expert, took the helm of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) as secretary general. The ISA, an intergovernmental body that governs what happens on the seafloor in international waters, is responsible for an area that spans more than half the planet. One of the agency’s key roles is in deciding the future of deep-sea mining, a nascent industry targeting tennis ball–sized rocks called polymetallic nodules.
The Destructive Legacy of Failed Aquaculture | Hakai Magazine

Dec 5, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Larry Pynn

Aquaculture is big business in Canada. In 2023, open-net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia alone produced 50,000 tonnes of fish worth just over US $350-million. But on June 30, 2029, the federal government’s long-looming ban on open-net-pen salmon farming is set to take effect. On that day, 63 operations will be forced to shut down.
For Killer Whales, Saddle Patches are Like Fingerprints | Hakai Magazine

Nov 29, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Marina Wang

One of the killer whale’s most distinguishing features is its saddle patch: an area of gray or white coloration behind its dorsal fin. Each killer whale has a distinct saddle patch, just as humans have distinct fingerprints. Scientists and other observers can use these patches both to identify individuals and to differentiate one ecologically divided population from another.
One Great Shot: Bluebottle Beauty | Hakai Magazine

Nov 22, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Grant Thomas

Each summer, thousands of bluebottles (also known as Portuguese man-of-wars) wash up along the shores of Sydney, Australia. These remarkable relatives of jellyfish are actually colonial organisms: each is made up of four kinds of specialized, interdependent bodies called zooids. One zooid provides the gas-filled sail; when the wind catches, it whisks the bluebottle across the ocean’s surface. The other zooids take care of hunting, digestion, and reproduction.
Little Books with Big Subjects | Hakai Magazine

Nov 19, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Adrienne Mason

One of the biggest mistakes novice children’s book writers make is to assume that a story must teach something. An overt message—share, don’t be a bully, eat your veggies—can make for a boring book. There can, of course, be a lot to learn in children’s books, but it takes a deft hand to avoid being didactic. Several of this season’s marine-themed books tackle big subjects—death, extinction, fear, even a lost toy (a monumental disaster for some).
Finding Food and Solace in the Intertidal | Hakai Magazine

Nov 14, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Emma Marris

When I was a teenager in the mid-1990s, I had a friend whose family owned an unimproved lot on Dabob Bay, a bay off a fjord nestled deep in the southern Salish Sea, in Washington State. My group of friends, almost all of us the broke, angst-ridden, poorly supervised children of divorce, would camp there on weekends. We swam, sunbathed topless without sunscreen, smoked weed and drank liquor purloined from our parents, and danced around bonfires listening to Portishead.
The Other Side of the World’s Largest Dam Removal | Hakai Magazine

Nov 12, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | J.B. MacKinnon

1. A reckoningIt’s a blustery day in the autumn of 2023, and I’m standing in a roadside pullout in Northern California, looking at the past and future of the Klamath River. Immediately upstream I see Iron Gate Dam—17 stories tall, nearly four times as wide— completely blocking its red-rock canyon. There are four such dams, with Iron Gate as the first and largest, in 60 kilometers of river rising to the northeast.
For an Ecosystem in Crisis, Recovery Can Take Ages | Hakai Magazine

Nov 3, 2024 | hakaimagazine.com | Moira Donovan

In the late Miocene epoch, roughly 5.9 million years ago, calamity befell the Mediterranean Sea. In a period of roughly 600,000 years, tectonic uplift sealed the gateway between Europe and North Africa, cutting the basin off from the Atlantic Ocean. Suddenly—geologically speaking—the Mediterranean was an inland sea. Before that, “you can imagine a nice tropical place with tropical reefs everywhere,” says Konstantina Agiadi, a geoscientist and paleontologist at the University of Vienna in Austria.