New Entrant 2022 Membership Forms
If you wish to join the Canadian Sealers Association and become a new entrant our 2022 Membership Form is ready for download (PDF file). Please go here for more information.
February 2022
Second of three hunting expeditions planned for Brion Island
A first crew of hunters, accompanied by researchers from Laval University, set sail Thursday morning to go to the small isolated island located north of the archipelago. In October 2020, Quebec authorized a gray seal hunt [...]
October 2021
Cod Peace: Saving the “The Voiceless Ones”
It was January 25, 1979, when members of the St. John’s Rotary Club announced the formation of the Codpeace Foundation following the club’s weekly meeting. It was led by businessman and former city councilor Miller Ayre [...]
September 2021
Archives: Sealing: Facts vs Farce
In 2018 former CSA president Jim Winter wrote for The Downhome magazine's June issue why the EU, British and American sealing policy is hypocritical and anti-democratic. During the most recent seal harvesting season, I was reminded [...]
June 2021
5 Miles of Seals (Video)
5 Miles of Seals: Newfoundland fisherman’s video goes viral, fires up more debate about pinnipeds Jason Branton, a fisherman from Winterton, Newfoundland and Labrador, was steering his fishing vessel home after a crab fishing trip last [...]
April 2021
Online discussion forum on the future of the sealing industry
Canadian Sealers Association president Eldred Woodford was part of a CBC hosted online forum about the current and future state of the sealing industry suffering from no international markets to export to. CBC's Jane Adey moderates [...]
Poor ice conditions affecting seal pupping
Harp and hooded seals are being seriously affected by poor ice conditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and waters surrounding Newfoundland and parts of Labrador according to DFO marine mammal researcher Dr. Garry Stenson. Stenson [...]