It took a freedom of Information request to find out the number of Scottish salmon farmers who were issued licences to shoot seals and the numbers shot, to protect their salmon farmed stocks. Animal rights campaigners [...]
Local CBC journalist Kenny Sharpe dropped into Wesley United Church here in St. John's to witness a 300 Flipper Pie mega serving this past May, cooked and prepared by a large crew of volunteers. It was served at [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
