New Entrant 2025 Membership form
We welcome all new entrant sealers to join the CSA and support a collective voice on all matters that concern our industry. We appreciate all your support. You do not have to be a sealer to [...]
February 2025
Upcoming Commercial Sealer Workshops
The PFHCB will be delivering Commercial Sealer Workshops on the following days. The cost is $50 for both certificates. Pre-registration forms can be found at www.pfhcb.com. Monday, March 3, 2025 Tuesday – No Workshops Wednesday, March [...]
Buying Local Seal Products
A new logo and awareness campaign was unveiled to encourage residents to buy products from Newfoundland and Labrador and Canada by the provincial government as a new initiative to help build awareness of the importance of [...]
January 2025
2025 Personal Use Sealer Workshops
DFO will be delivering online Humane Harvesting Workshops for persons interested in obtaining a Personal Use Seal licence. Workshops will be delivered virtually/online using Zoom. Sessions will be approximately 1 hour. The workshop is available at [...]
Humane Harvesting and Quality Workshops 2025
The Professional Fish Harvesters Certification Board (PFHCB) will be delivering Humane Harvesting and Quality/Handling/Health Workshops virtually/online starting early March 2025, on a first come basis. Workshops will be delivered virtually/online using Zoom. Sessions will be approximately [...]
November 2024
Nordic Hunters Alliance hope the EU seal ban can be reversed
The Nordic Hunters Alliance hope the EU seal products import and export ban can be reversed and are calling on the EU parliament to look into recent research on depleted fish stocks in their region and [...]
August 2024
Fisheries Minister writes to EU to reconsider import ban on seal products
The Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier said in a letter written August 6, 2024 and addressed to the European Commission's vice-president Virginijus Sinkevičius that Canada has been given the opportunity to "provide input" on the seal trade [...]