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 [...]
Sealers museum at Elliston can be ’emotional’ for some
(CBC.ca) The Home from The Sea Sealers Memorial in Elliston is changing attitudes toward the seal hunt with tourists visiting the area., according to Executive Director, Marilyn Coles-Hayley. The center has tissue boxes handy near it's wall [...]
Debunking myths about seal industry to tourists
Teresa Prince enjoys sharing the facts about the sealing industry with worldwide travelers and tourists who drop by the Dock Marina craft shop she manages in Marina Dock, Trinity. She says she gets pleasure out [...]
Always in Vogue opens new store in China
Atlantic Canada based furrier Always In Vogue is proud to announce that they have opened a new Seal Boutique In Shenyang China, with an amazing selection of Seal products made right here in Newfoundland and [...]