December 2015
Former CSA president responds to LA Times misleading article
Jim Winter, former president of the Canadian Sealers Association recently sent off a letter in response to a Los Angeles Times article on December 18 2015 regarding news that animal rights activists are lobbying Beijing to [...]
Bio-chemical company wants to develop products from grey seals
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
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
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
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 [...]
VIDEO: Sealing in Finland, an EU member nation.
A Scandinavian supporter of our industry and tradition, Magnus Petersson, sent us a video source showing Finnish seal hunters spending a typical day on a sealing vessel in the Bay of Bothnia. He notes that "unfortunately [...]