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December 2015

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 [...]

VIDEO: Sealing in Finland, an EU member nation.

November 6th, 2015|

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 [...]

October 2015

Sealers museum at Elliston can be ’emotional’ for some

October 6th, 2015|

(CBC.ca) The Home from The Sea Sealers Memorial in Elliston is changing attitudes toward the seal hunt with tourists visiting the area., according to Executive Director, Marilyn Coles-Hayley. The center has tissue boxes handy near it's wall exhibits [...]

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