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January 2016

Federal Fisheries minister visits province

January 13th, 2016|

Federal Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo met with provincial government officials in St. John's this past Monday January 11. He also met with industry stakeholders and took questions from media. An Inuk from Nunavut, minister TooToo told [...]

December 2015

Thank You

December 23rd, 2015|

The Canadian Sealers Association would like to take this important time of the year to thank all it's members and industry stakeholders for their support in making  these challenging times for our industry that more easier [...]

Bio-chemical company wants to develop products from grey seals

December 15th, 2015|

A Quebec bio-chemical company, SiliCycle® Inc. is a fine chemistry company specialized in the development, manufacturing and commercialization of specialized silica based products for organic chemistry, purification and chromatography. This company announced recently that it wants to [...]

LISTEN: Humane Workshops: The Broadcast series

December 3rd, 2015|

Host Jane Adey of The Broadcast - CBC's current province wide rural affairs magazine is doing a series of interviews with facilitators and guests who attended the fall seal harvesting humane workshops recently put off around [...]

November 2015

Updated: Always in Vogue in China

November 24th, 2015|

The CBC's reporter Adam Walsh, who is currently on a fellowship from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada has filed a series of excellent reports about the prospects of increased sales in Canadian sealskin products in [...]

OPENING SOON: New seal tannery

November 22nd, 2015|

The provincial sealing industry got a boost yesterday when PhocaLux International Inc. , a new sealing tannery on the west coast of the island in Fleur de Lys, announced once it has cleared an environmental assessment [...]

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