April 5th, 2012 (The Telegram) The provincial government announced today a $3.6-million loan to the sealing industry. Fisheries Minister Darin King, flanked by representatives of the sealing industry, made the announcement in St. John’s and said [...]
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced today the harp seal fishery on “The Front” off the northeast coast of Newfoundland will open Thursday, April 12, at 6 a.m. For seal harvesters based in sealings areas [...]
March 21, 2012. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has set the Total Allowable Catch for the 2012 season for Harp Seals. Total Allowable Catches and Sharing Arrangements for the Hooded Seal TAC for 2012 is [...]
February 25, 2012 (CBC.ca) About 25 sealers arrived on Hay Island, N.S., off the eastern coast of Cape Breton, on Thursday for the start of the grey seal hunt. Journalists are on the tiny outcrop of [...]
(CBC.ca) February 21 2012 With the harp seal hunt about a month away, officials with Fisheries and Oceans Canada say ice conditions for the hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are looking [...]
February 13, 2012: The Northern Pen newspaper today filed a very good question and answer article with sealers from Port Saunders and Port Au Choix to discuss the current state of the seal industry and the devastating [...]
CBC.ca: --- (Jan 16, 2012) A huge seal population is preventing cod stocks from rebounding off Nova Scotia, two former directors of science at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography say. The work of Bob O'Boyle and [...]
