DFO 2015 Seal Harvest Landings to May 4
The latest DFO 2015 Seal Harvest Landings report was issued May 04, to show both the Longliner and Small Boat catch totals to date.
May 2015
Culinary Seal Event at Mallard Cottage
It was a show of cuisine power and imagination on display at Mallard Cottage last Thursday night when some of Canada's fines chefs joined local top notch culinary local talent at Mallard Cottage to promote awareness [...]
April 2015
Latest DFO landings report to April 28
The latest DFO 2015 Seal Harvest Landings report was issued April 28 to show both the Longliner and Small Boat catch totals to date. Total numbers are here
Minister Hutching’s to approach US ambassador about seal exports to the USA.
If Keith Hutchings, Newfoundland and Labrador's minister of Municipal and Provincial Affairs, has his way he would like to see a way forward to get seal products from here into the US markets in light of recent [...]
Federal support for aboriginal sealing industry announced
We are examining the recent federal budget announcement made this Tuesday regarding the news that support for the aboriginal sealing sector has being committed over 5 years. We have included the actual text below from the [...]
NOTICE: 2015 Personal Use Seal License Sessions
DFO advises that there will be a Seal Information Session for new applicants requesting Personal Use Seal licenses at the following location: Eastport - Thursday, April 23 at S.U.F. Hall, Eastport, NL. Session will commence at [...]
Opinion: Jim Winter on EU’s weak trade restrictions laws.
The EU Seal Products Ban – Why Ineffective Animal Welfare Protection Cannot Justify Trade Restrictions under European and International Trade Law by Martin Hennig, Postdoc, Ph.D, Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, [...]