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 [...]
June 2015
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 [...]
Scotland coming to terms on threats to cod stocks by seal overpopulation
A report in the Journal of Applied Ecology has been summarized by the BBC. Grey seals are compromising the recovery of cod stocks off the west coast of Scotland, research has suggested. The cod population has [...]
Update: Greenland delegation head to Strasbourg to make point to MEP’s
Updated:May 19, 2015: Greenland sends officials to the EU parliament in Strasbourg to lobby European MP's on how the misguided ban on the import of seal products is affecting their way of life. There is now [...]