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 [...]
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
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 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 [...]
