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March 2011

Canada challenges EU decision at WTO

March 25th, 2011|

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

March 24th, 2011|

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?

March 21st, 2011|

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

March 15th, 2011|

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

February 17th, 2011|

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 [...]

Canada intensifies appeal on EU seal ban

February 11th, 2011|

Canada is taking its fight against a European ban on seal products to a new level, the government said Friday.Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said in Ottawa that the government is following through with its promise [...]

January 2011

Hundreds of dead seals in Labrador

January 17th, 2011|

People on the north coast of Labrador say scores of dead seals have been washing ashore since early December. A conservation officer with the area's Inuit government estimated late last week that hundreds of adult and [...]

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