Transport Canada is now proposing new vessel safety regulations to make the fishery safer. The new safety requirements proposed will be based primarily on any risk, regardless of size or tonnage. All fishing vessels will [...]

Prime Minister Trudeau paid a visit to the booth of the Makivik Corporation today at the Northern Lights Trade Show in Ottawa. He was given a Nunavik Creations sealskin vest and saw his picture on [...]

The Canadian Sealers Association would like to take this important time of the year to thank all it's members and industry stakeholders for their support in making  these challenging times for our industry that more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]