Federal Fisheries minister visits province
Federal Fisheries Minister Hunter Tootoo met with provincial government officials in St. John's this past Monday January 11. He also met with industry stakeholders and took questions from media. An Inuk from Nunavut, minister TooToo [...]
Former CSA president responds to LA Times misleading article
Jim Winter, former president of the Canadian Sealers Association recently sent off a letter in response to a Los Angeles Times article on December 18 2015 regarding news that animal rights activists are lobbying Beijing [...]
Bio-chemical company wants to develop products from grey seals
A Quebec bio-chemical company, SiliCycle® Inc. is a fine chemistry company specialized in the development, manufacturing and commercialization of specialized silica based products for organic chemistry, purification and chromatography. This company announced recently that it wants [...]
LISTEN: Humane Workshops: The Broadcast series
Host Jane Adey of The Broadcast - CBC's current province wide rural affairs magazine is doing a series of interviews with facilitators and guests who attended the fall seal harvesting humane workshops recently put off [...]
Updated: Always in Vogue in China
The CBC's reporter Adam Walsh, who is currently on a fellowship from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada has filed a series of excellent reports about the prospects of increased sales in Canadian sealskin products [...]
OPENING SOON: New seal tannery
The provincial sealing industry got a boost yesterday when PhocaLux International Inc. , a new sealing tannery on the west coast of the island in Fleur de Lys, announced once it has cleared an environmental [...]
VIDEO: Sealing in Finland, an EU member nation.
A Scandinavian supporter of our industry and tradition, Magnus Petersson, sent us a video source showing Finnish seal hunters spending a typical day on a sealing vessel in the Bay of Bothnia. He notes that [...]
NEW: Mandatory Humane Harvesting Training for the Commercial Seal Fishery
Mandatory Humane Harvesting Training for the Commercial Seal Fishery DFO reminds all Commercial Seal licence holders that Humane Harvesting Training on the three-step process is mandatory for all Commercial Seal licence holders. In order to [...]
October Humane Harvesting Workshops for Commercial Sealers
PLEASE NOTE: These workshops are now finished and if we have more information on new ones before the 2016 sealing season commences, we will let you know here on this page. The 2015 Fall Humane [...]