Canada increases seal hunt to 400,000
The quota for the harp seal hunt off Canada's east coast this spring has been set at 400,000 animals by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The total allowable catch for hooded seals will be 8,200, [...]
March 2011
Norway Fights European Seal ban
March 15, 2011 Minister Shea Welcomes Norway's Challenge of the European Union's Seal Ban at the World Trade Organization The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today issued the following statement welcoming Norway's request [...]
Canada challenges EU decision at WTO
Canada will get to challenge the European Union's trade ban on seal products at a World Trade Organization dispute panel. The WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, which met in Geneva on Friday, accepted Canada's request to have [...]
Call for massive cull welcomed
A new study from the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat, says the experiment would determine whether significantly reducing the grey seal population in the Gulf would help cod stocks recover from a drastic decline. No surprise the [...]
Some seals heading for warmer climes?
Harp seals from Atlantic Canada are showing up in U.S. waters in greater numbers and farther south than usual, and biologists want to know why.Small numbers of juvenile harp seals are typically found each winter stranded [...]
Devastation of our stocks
December 2010Devouring Our Cod Stocks Watch graphic evidence of cod stocks being depleted by hundreds of seals in Triton. Video was shot December 24th, 2010.Video courtesy of Dennis Smeaton
February 2011
Hay Island seal hunt to open
Feb. 17 - 2011 Nova Scotia — An annual seal hunt that has become a battleground in the bitter conflict between sealers and anti-hunt activists is about to begin off eastern Cape Breton.The Hay Island grey [...]