Coverage: Elliston Sealers Memorial official opening
Click to enlarge June 25, 2014: - New photos by Jim Winter have arrived of the new Sealers Memorial Center and can be seen here June 20, 2014: Update: Hundreds turn out for unveiling [...]
June 2014
7.3 million and growing
"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 2014
Updates: WTO appeal decision
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 [...]
Abacus Data Poll Reaction
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 [...]
Beware of online sealskin scams
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 [...]
Home From The Sea to unveil memorial in June
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 2014
Severe ice conditions
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 [...]