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 [...]
March 2023
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 [...]
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 [...]
February 2023
Opinion: Bob Hardy’s paper on full utilization of the seal
One of our most ardent supporters is fisheries consultant and industry advocate Robert Hardy sent us this file (PDF) presentation on how he once proposed to utilize the full seal [...]
November 2022
Ár n-oileán Resources hopes to open seal processing plant in Tors Cove by 2024
"Newfoundland company says customers are begging for seal oil products" From: Barbara Dean Simmons - Saltwire journalist: November 18, 2022 Kendall Flood doesn’t worry that Ár n-oileán Resources won’t be [...]
Seal Summit: Update – A good start but there is a mountain to climb
(Saltwire) If this were Mount Everest, we’re at the base and we’ve got a long way to go to get to the summit. That’s the analogy Dion Dakins uses to [...]
October 2022
Inuit in Ottawa gain new access to fresh seal meat
"Reconseal Inuksiuti" recently marked two years in operation for founders Yoanis Menge and Ruben Komangapik with their hunting and harvesting initiative. "We came up with "recon-seal" as a play of [...]