"Highest levels observed since monitoring began in the 1950s" reports The Fisheries and Oceans Canada website. Executive director Frank Pinhorn comments on the ongoing struggle with international export hurdles, politics and responds to the difficulties with [...]
May 25, 2014 - Frank Pinhorn, executive director of the Canadian Sealers Association, is reminding the public of the European Union's hypocritical stand in light of a World Trade Organization's ruling upholding the EU's import ban [...]
Most Europeans don’t like “public morality” trade bans: Survey "The WTO ban is based on the misconception... that Europeans are completely opposed to the seal hunt" NUNATSIAQ NEWS These sealskin creations were on display at the [...]
St. John's: There is news today that an online scam has duped some sealskin buyers in the province for thousands of dollars. The "seller" who went by the Facebook name of "Dana Mitchell" from Corner Brook [...]
St. John's: - Home From The Sea, the organization formed to pay respect to the those who perished on the ice back in the 1914 sealing disasters are close to unveiling a memorial to those [...]
April 24, 2014 - St. John's: Ice conditions for this year's seal harvest is proving difficult for some sealers and this will mean an elongated season that will go well into May. As of April 23 [...]
April 23, 2014: St. John's - The Last of the Ice Hunters is a history of the seal hunt, an industry now in decline, but one which provided the few opportunities for employment to Newfoundlanders and [...]
