Port Hardy

No, I am on, uh, Vancouver Island at, uh, n- the tip of Vancouver Island.

I'm in Port Hardy.

Oh, okay.

Well, we'll, we'll be-

She was pulled over in a rest stop that we call Big Tree rest stop.

And if you go on a Vancouver Island highway and you pass Campbell River heading up towards Port McNeil, Port Hardy, you'll come to Roberts Lake on your right.

A lot of stories there about Sasquatch.

But I guess maybe six miles, seven miles past that, they use this bridge on the big tree Creek or brackets, Luqua in our language means big tree.

And Vancouver Island is pretty soon.

You're not even going to see it from all the icons that are going to be on top of it.

You know, it's like bank, the Island highway between Campbell river and Port Hart, Port McNeil, Port Hardy.

You know, I drive up there all the time and, you know, people, whether it be Peggy or others, they're just like, wow, there's a lot of Sasquatch encounters on this highway.

Penticton's airport is one of five airports affected by the new federal initiative to adjust parking fees.

The other airports are Port Hardy, Sandspit and Haida Gwaii, along with one in Quebec and one in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The parking fee increase won't increase the same amount across all five airports.

Transport Canada says the price hike will put parking fees similar to other large airports.

Guys are sharing their experiences and their stories.

I'm getting guys from Manitoba, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Port Hardy, High River, B.C., you know, Kelowna, B.C., Um, all over the U S guys in, um, the UK, you know, it's really exciting and I really appreciate listening to your guys' stories and, um, you guys just reaching out.

I love it.

Um, I, I do take the time to read them all, read, read every single one.

Hundreds of thousands of salmon swim in these pens off B.C.' 's coast but the people who manage much of what happens in this fish farm are dozens of kilometres away.

This is Raven office in a small room on a dock in Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island.

And these employees are watching screens that monitor almost a dozen salmon farms for Mowi Canada West led by production manager Mike Dobbs.

We've actually got real-time data on the environment the temperature, the oxygen, the salinity.

So where is it coming from and what does it mean for the local market? W5's John Woodward takes a look.

The town of Port Hardy on northern Vancouver Island has fishing in its DNA says its mayor Patricia Corbett-Lebat.

We are a fishing, logging, mining community.

We're a resource base.

Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans told W5 in a statement there may not be a causal link between farms and fish stocks.

And as for that shutdown plan, when W5 approached the fisheries minister, Joanne Thompson, she didn't confirm or deny whether the government plans to follow through, saying there is no single solution to the challenges facing wild Pacific salmon, which is why we are taking a comprehensive approach to protecting and rebuilding these stocks.

Mayor Corbett Labatt hopes that bodes well for Port Hardy.

And it is divided.