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 [...]
February 2011
Canada intensifies appeal on EU seal ban
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
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 [...]
The Atlantic Wide Seal Advisory Meeting
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 agrees to buy seals
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 [...]
Two-thirds support seal hunt
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 [...]
Nunavut slams US proposal to list ringed seals as threatened
"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 [...]