Below is an abstract from a research paper conducted by Danita Burke, a J.R. Smallwood Foundation Fellow, Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. It was published by The Northern Review Journal number 51 in [...]
May 12-2022 Today, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Joyce Murray, announced that the report from the Atlantic Seal Science Task Team is available online. You can download the PDF [...]
DFO advises Newfoundland and Labrador Seal harvesters that the seal fishery will re-open in Sealing Areas 4 to 23 and Sealing Areas 25 to 27 at 0600 hours on April 8, 2022. The fishery will open [...]
A first crew of hunters, accompanied by researchers from Laval University, set sail Thursday morning to go to the small isolated island located north of the archipelago. In October 2020, Quebec authorized a gray seal hunt [...]
In 2018 former CSA president Jim Winter wrote for The Downhome magazine's June issue why the EU, British and American sealing policy is hypocritical and anti-democratic. During the most recent seal harvesting season, I was reminded [...]
5 Miles of Seals: Newfoundland fisherman’s video goes viral, fires up more debate about pinnipeds Jason Branton, a fisherman from Winterton, Newfoundland and Labrador, was steering his fishing vessel home after a crab fishing trip last [...]
In the last week of April, the Canadian Ice Service recorded the lowest amount of sea ice in Labrador in its history of record-keeping, which dates back 50 years. The coast of northern Labrador is currently [...]
