When common sense and great ideas meet
Bait Masters of P.E.I. is a company that understands making bait should also have some common sense mixed into its ingredients. So the idea of adding seal meat to its bait sausages used to harvest lobster [...]
March 2023
Archives: Cute, cuddly, edible
Defending Canada's seal hunters Jun 2nd 2008: From an article in the Economist.com between a reporter and former CSA president Jim Winter and Aaju Peter. SUSTAINABILITY— whether in reference to farming, logging, fisheries, medicinal plants or [...]
UPDATED: Seal Course March 24th “Quality,Handling and Health”
Update notice March 16, 2023 PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE The Workshop for the 23rd is now rescheduled for March 24, 2023. The Professional Fish Harvesters Certification Board (PFHCB) will be delivering Humane Harvesting and Quality/Handling/Health [...]
Commercial and Personal Use fishery closure for whelping
DFO advises that both the Commercial fishery and Personal Use fishery for Harp seals and Hooded seals will close in all areas to all seal harvesters and all fleets based in Newfoundland and Labrador at 1800 [...]
February 2023
Video: Bob Hardy’s “Seals Eat Fish” presentation
Below is a video presentation from long time concerned seal harvest and seal predation activist Bob Hardy at the 2023 SeaNL annual general meeting in Gander this past weekend February 25th. As Bob states: The Atlantic [...]
Opinion: Bob Hardy’s paper on full utilization of the seal
One of our most ardent supporters is fisheries consultant and industry advocate Robert Hardy sent us this file (PDF) presentation on how he once proposed to utilize the full seal for markets worldwide as a viable [...]
October 2022
Inuit in Ottawa gain new access to fresh seal meat
"Reconseal Inuksiuti" recently marked two years in operation for founders Yoanis Menge and Ruben Komangapik with their hunting and harvesting initiative. "We came up with "recon-seal" as a play of words (a mix of) reconciliation and [...]