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industry. Information such as statistics and press releases
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February 9, 2010
Higher market prices expected for this year's harvest. Full quota bought in advance for Hay Island.
Seal hunters are expecting the time they spend off Cape Breton this year will be much more lucrative than the last.
They have found a buyer for the full quota of 2,200 seal pelts for the Hay Island hunt, Robert Courtney of the North of Smokey-Inverness South Fishermen's Association said Sunday. CTV.ca news story here
Ethical-sealing pledge could lift EU ban
A Quebec senator is calling on Nunavut to sign on to a proposed international declaration on ethical seal hunting, which she says could help Canada challenge the European Union's trade ban on seal products. CBC.ca story here
Shameful! Sea Sheppard refuses to pay out $25,000 bet on proven evidence.
Darren Fancey of St. John's, creator of the pro-sealing website seashepherd.blogspot, is challenging Watson to make good on a pledge to pay $25,000 to anyone who could document the cod belly phenomenon. Globe and Mail story here
January 11, 2010
Inuit groups sue EU over seal trade ban
Inuit groups in Canada and Greenland are taking the European Union to court over its import ban on products derived from the seal hunt.
The lawsuit, announced Wednesday in Ottawa, aims to overturn the ban adopted by 27 European countries last year. The court documents have been filed in the European General Court, the first level of the EU's court system. CBC News story here
Canadian seal products at Beijing show
Above is a still from a CTV News story on the Beijing show. The video can
be viewed here.
A Canadian delegation is pitching seal products to Chinese buyers this week, hoping to expand the controversial animal's appeal in Asian markets. Gail Shea, federal minister of fisheries and oceans, is part of the delegation that is showcasing made-in-Canada seal products at the 36th International Leather and Fur Show in Beijing. The products include a clothing collection made from seal fur, seal oil, seal meat and even seal hearts. The delegation says the seal hearts could even replace pig heart valves currently used in some human surgeries. CBC story here | DFO Press Relase
January 5, 2010
White House fuming mad at PETA
Obama's not impressed with PETA's illegal use of first Lady's image
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The fur is flying over a new ad campaign by an animal rights group the White House says is using first lady Michelle Obama's image without her permission.Full Associated Press story here
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February 2010
Limited Grey Seal Harvest on Hay Island. Nova Scotia government press release here
December 2009
DFO 2009 Seal Hunt site
March 2009
Seal hunt gets underway off Îles de la Madeleine
The annual harp seal hunt began off Îles de la Madeleine in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence on Monday. Over the weekend, federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea set the annual harp seal quota at 280,000 animals for the entire hunt, including N.L. That's 5,000 more than last year
European seal bans worry Nunavut politicians
CBC News
European sealing bans have become an urgent concern among Nunavut politicians after Russia decided this week to ban the hunting of baby harp seals while the European Union considers its own seal ban. Story is here
Absolute discharges granted in long-running sealing trial
(CBC News) After almost 13 years, countless thousands of dollars and numerous court dates, 10 Newfoundland and Labrador sealers were told Friday they will not have criminal records.
Veterinarians offer workshops to train sealers to conduct harvest according to new Federal 3 step process.
Two veterinarians from the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown spent two weeks this year giving workshops to ensure hunters understand the new 3 step process introduced last season. The process which is required by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans to ensure a clean a kill of the seals.
THE 2008 SEAL MANAGEMENT MEASURES REPORT
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), the federal department responsible for
managing the seal hunt, introduced a five-year management plan in 2006, Atlantic Seal Hunt – 2006-2010 Management Plan.
As part of this management plan, the Government of Canada is committed to
taking a precautionary management approach, with quotas that are set at
levels that ensure the health and abundance of seal herds. Current estimates
suggest there are more than 5.5 million harp seals just off Canada’s shores. You can read the DFO report on management measures here
July 3, 2009
Is Rebecca Aldworth and Sir Paul on the way to save the Grey Squirrel we ask?
When the UK is busy poking their nose in foreign countries to prevent legal scientifically backed conservation types of culls and harvesting of unendangered species such as the seal harvest off the east coast of Canada the general public in the UK appear to see nothing wrong with culling thousands of grey squirrels and serving them up as gourmet pate. What a blast of two faced hypocrisy this is and do you think HSUS Aldworth is anywhere in sight saving the cute cuddly grey squirrels? Winnipeg Sun has a good article on this
April 2009
Forget seals - what about kangaroos?
Brian Jones (The Telegram)
It is weeks into spring and the annual bloodfest off our coasts, but there still isn't word on which big-name celebrity - if any - will come to Newfoundland to be photographed with a cute seal and show the world how environmentally aware they are and perhaps boost their B-grade marketability. Full article here
March, 2009
Photo © Jim Bell
Say it loud, say it proud: we love our seal meat
Iqaluit residents feasted on raw seal meat and reveled in the beauty of sealskin clothing at a community gathering held this past March 14 to assert Inuit pride in the Arctic seal hunt. NUNATSIAQ NEWS STORY HERE
On Cute and Ugly Meat
by Eygló Svala Arnarsdóttir (Iceland Review) January 2009
While studying in Germany a few years back one of my professors was thrilled to find out that I came from Iceland—an enjoyable trip to my North Atlantic isle still fresh in her memory. Then her expression suddenly darkened as she recalled something unpleasant about her journey. “I find it horrible that you eat puffins,” she told me. “Why?” I demanded. “Because they’re so cute.” Read the full article here
A Travesty of Fiction over fact: Hypocrisy reigns Supreme. Read Jim Winter's excellent article here from the IWMC website
European Union's support for bullfighting
"The EU shows no sign of stepping in to ban bullfighting. It even actively promotes an event in Coria where a bull is taunted in the streets. Such activities are deemed to be "traditions, customs and a centuries old culture". Read Damian Corrigan's About.com's article here
Seal
Harvests and the Social Elite
Don't
count on Ottawa to counter the ban by European countries
writes Mike Kehoe for the Canadian
Free Press. Read
his commentary here
Sealing
a rightful occupation
Harp
seal populations have doubled in size and harvesting is
humane, argues Jim Winter. Read his commentary
here
The Beatle vs the Fisherman
"So it is with a full heart clot of regret that I see one of the golden boys of adolescence, the incomparable Paul McCartney, following in the high-heel prints of Brigitte Bardot to denounce the Canadian seal hunt."
Ottawa Sun columnist Michale Harris takes issue with a former Beatle's view of the seal hunt. Read the article here
Read
how Canadian Senator Céline Hervieux-Payette stands
up for the Seal Industry:
 Letter
to German Government
Notes
for the "Up the Anti" protest in Ottawa
Official
News Release
The
IWMC, International Wildlife Management
Consortium World Conservation Trust, a marine and wildlife
conservation group is praising the seal hunt for it's conservation
measures. Read the article here
MP
Scott Simms responds to the German Parliament's plan to
ban seal product imports. Read
full article here. (The Telegram)
Reaction
from one observer in New York, NY in response to the latest
proposal by the German
Government to ban seal products.
There are video commentaries in our video section
You
can read news items from 2006 here
Historical reference:
A great source of historical data about the Seal Hunt is now available online at Memorial University of Newfoundland 's Achives Online
"We will cooperate fully with them in their study on the humaneness of the seal hunt."
Interview with Loyola Sullivan, Ambassador for Fisheries Conservation. Read the full web interview with Ambassador Sullivan.
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"We're
coastal people, just hanging on by our fingertips. We need
the seal hunt to make ends meet." Canadian
sealer Jack Troake tells the Chicago Tribune
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"There
are 51/2 million harps out there alone. The ecosystem is
out of whack — that's two million more than there
used to be — and we support a hunt, a commercial hunt."
Ed Frenette
of the P.E.I. Fishermen's Association. (Source CBC
online)
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