Febraury 18, 2013 March information sessions. - The Department of Fisheries and Oceans will be holding seal information sessions next month on the Northern Peninsula for new applicants requesting personal use and temporary seal licences. Session [...]
March 6 - 2013 As reported by our friends at the Fur Institute of Canada (FIC), the Canadian Senate (105 members) has overwhelmingly voted in support of a commercial seal harvest and industry that includes it [...]
February 28, 2013 - The CSA was represented by it's president, Eldred Woodford, at the WTO hearings in Geneva Switzerland last week into the European ban on marketing and the importation of seal products. The arguments brought [...]
February 20, 2013 - Carrie Tate reports for the Globe and Mail that the legitimacy of the European ban on seal imports may be showing cracks in the midst of EU trade with Canada negotiations. The [...]
Winter is a great time to catch up on some reading and we here at the CSA thought you might like to know about a great book by Newfoundland author Shannon Ryan who wrote "The Ice [...]
It never fails to amuse us here at the CSA when we see countries such as Taiwan who blindly join the import ban of seal products because of false and misleading propaganda ( we refuse to [...]
December 21, 2012 - The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has been repaid just over half of a $2-million loan it provided a company to help boost this year’s commercial harp seal hunt. Provincial fisheries minister [...]
