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 [...]
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 [...]
January 19, 2011The Atlantic Wide Seal Advisory Meeting will be held at the Delta on the 18 and 19 of January. It will focus on science, quotas for 2011, markets, regulatory changes and sealer training and education. [...]
China has agreed to buy seal meat and seal oil from Canada, according to the federal fisheries minister."[We are] natural partners in the seafood industry," Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Wednesday during a trade mission to [...]
By Rob Cahill, Windsor Star June 1, 2010Chrissy Vanderheide-Stolarski repeats a common animal activist refrain that "a vast majority of Canadians oppose the seal hunt." Concerned about the validity of this claim, the Seals and Sealing [...]
"Unwelcome and misguided initiative" could undermine Inuit seal hunt, Shewchuk saysCHRIS WINDEYERPeople in Ottawa enjoy a feast of seal meat earlier this year. Eastern Arctic ringed seal populations are believed to number in the millions. (FILE [...]
June, 2010 Fishermen call for a mandatory cull Fishermen say the seal population in eastern Canada should be culled to help fish stocks rebound. The head of the Fish Food and Allied Workers union, that represents [...]
