National Seal Products Day
Tuesday, May 16 is National Seal Products Day and it will be celebrated on Parliament Hill Ottawa. National Seal Products Day is celebrated annually during the month of May to promote the seal products industry and [...]
May 2023
April 2023
Audio: Aaju Peter’s presentation to House of Commons on EU seal ban
Aaju Peter is an Inuk lawyer, activist and sealskin clothes designer. In 2012, she received the Order of Canada. Aaju Peter has travelled across Greenland, Europe, and Canada, performing modern drum dance and traditional singing and displaying sealskin fashions. She graduated from Akitsiraq [...]
March 2023
Seal Fishery Re-Opening – April 6, 2023
March 28, 2023: DFO advises Newfoundland and Labrador Seal harvesters that the Commercial and Personal Use Seal fishery will re-open in Sealing Areas 4 to 23 and Sealing Areas 25 to 27 at 0600 hours on [...]
When common sense and great ideas meet
Bait Masters of P.E.I. is a company that understands making bait should also have some common sense mixed into its ingredients. So the idea of adding seal meat to its bait sausages used to harvest lobster [...]
Archives: Cute, cuddly, edible
Defending Canada's seal hunters Jun 2nd 2008: From an article in the Economist.com between a reporter and former CSA president Jim Winter and Aaju Peter. SUSTAINABILITY— whether in reference to farming, logging, fisheries, medicinal plants or [...]
UPDATED: Seal Course March 24th “Quality,Handling and Health”
Update notice March 16, 2023 PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE The Workshop for the 23rd is now rescheduled for March 24, 2023. The Professional Fish Harvesters Certification Board (PFHCB) will be delivering Humane Harvesting and Quality/Handling/Health [...]
Two specific recommendations about seal science in new report
There were two specific recommendations about seal science in a new DFO report of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans for March 2023 which is chaired by Ken McDonald, Liberal MP for Avalon. One is [...]