Nunavut secures EU exemption for seal hunt
As much as we are happy for the indigenous hunters of Nunavut in this recent decision to qualify for an exemption to the European Union’s ban on seal imports, we here at the CSA are unhappy [...]
August 2015
July 2015
Report: Reemergence of large seals causes new conservation challenges
The journal Conservation Letters, has published details from scientists who explored the effects of recovering predator populations such as seal lions, on their home ecosystems, resulting in new conservation challenges to those very same ecosystems. The [...]
June 2015
Welcoming new talent: Clare Dawn Couture
Clare Baker We spotted a very striking sealskin coat displayed at a recent fashion show at the Anna Templeton Center and had to ask who made it and we were told Clare Baker. Clare [...]
Opinion: Anti Sealing Propaganda and Democracy.
Canadian sealing is the sustainable use of a natural resource conducted under the strictest of humane killing regulations with quotas established through rigorous scientific studies of the populations. Everything that can be used is used and [...]
DFO considers FIC’s report into Asian specialty seal product markets
In March 2014, the Fur Institute of Canada produced a report outlining a five-year plan which pin points possible markets for a number of products from the ballooning grey seal population in the southern Gulf of [...]
EU protects Inuit seal imports but keeps “maritime resource management” hunt ban.
An exception to the EU ban on trade in seal products was deleted by the Internal Market Committee on Thursday. MEPs ruled out EU sales of seal products from “maritime resource management” hunts, in line with [...]
May 2015
Archives: An Enviro’s Case for Seal Hunt
We pulled this great article written in 2007, for The Tyee a Canadian news and culture website, written by Terry Glavin, about the hypocritical anti-Canadian seafood campaigns launched in the UK a few years back. I [...]