{"id":2161,"date":"2018-10-09T14:25:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T21:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swoa.ca\/?page_id=2161"},"modified":"2025-05-14T14:59:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T21:59:31","slug":"federal-dfo-moe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?page_id=2161","title":{"rendered":"Federal &#8211; DFO, MoE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"display-posts-listing grid\"><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8482\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Transport-Canata.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8482\">Changes in Pleasure Craft Licensing<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(4\/14\/2026)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Transport Canada Revisions All owners of pleasure craft will have obtained a pleasure craft license number when you purchased your vessel. Up to now, that license (and the number) have been good for life. However, Transport Canada has revised the licensing rules such that you will have to renew the license every five years. The&hellip; <a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8482\">Read Article<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8354\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Mussels.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8354\">Zebra and Quagga Mussels<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(9\/29\/2025)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">Snake River in Idaho - Fall 2025 As background, Zebra and Quagga mussels were introduced into North America in the bilge water of ships from Europe. With time, these mussels spread through the Great Lakes in Canada and the U.S., into Manitoba, and in many areas of the US.&nbsp; One of the primary ways the&hellip; <a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8354\">Read Article<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8209\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Lake-Level-June-sml.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8209\">Snowpack &amp; Shuswap Lake Level Update<\/a> <span class=\"date\">(6\/21\/2025)<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">June 18, 2025 The Provincial River Forecast Center issued its June 1, 2025, Snow Survey and Water Supply Bulletin last week. Generally, across B.C., snowpack is below normal, averaging 44 % of normal (decreasing from 61% May 15th). The Snow Basin Index for the South Thompson shows a similar trend at 53% of normal, down&hellip; <a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/?p=8209\">Read Article<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswoa.ca\">Login<\/a> to see more posts<\/strong>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2161","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8134,"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2161\/revisions\/8134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swoa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}