Province invests with loan for industry
March 27, 2013 - The provincial government announced today it will provide Carino Processing Ltd. of South Dildo with a $3.6 million loan for the purchase of seals from the 2013 harvest. Fisheries Minister Derrick [...]
Staying home
March 27, 2013 - For the first time in almost 20 years, animal rights groups won’t be flying their expensive noisy helicopters at dangerously low levels over ice floes and harassing wildlife, seals and hard [...]
UPDATE: SEALERS WORKSHOPS FOR MARCH
Posted: March 13, 2013 Updated: Sealer Information Workshops - Locations and Schedule The Professional Fish Harvesters Certification Board (PFHCB), acting on a mandate and support from sealing industry stakeholders (Canadian Sealers Association (CSA), FIC, Fish [...]
UPDATE: DFO information sessions
Febraury 18, 2013 March information sessions. - The Department of Fisheries and Oceans will be holding seal information sessions next month on the Northern Peninsula for new applicants requesting personal use and temporary seal licences. [...]
Canadian Senate reaffirm support for sealing industry
March 6 - 2013 As reported by our friends at the Fur Institute of Canada (FIC), the Canadian Senate (105 members) has overwhelmingly voted in support of a commercial seal harvest and industry that includes [...]
Update: WTO EU Ban Hearings
February 28, 2013 - The CSA was represented by it's president, Eldred Woodford, at the WTO hearings in Geneva Switzerland last week into the European ban on marketing and the importation of seal products. The arguments [...]
Will the EU play fair?
February 20, 2013 - Carrie Tate reports for the Globe and Mail that the legitimacy of the European ban on seal imports may be showing cracks in the midst of EU trade with Canada negotiations. [...]
The Ice Hunters
Winter is a great time to catch up on some reading and we here at the CSA thought you might like to know about a great book by Newfoundland author Shannon Ryan who wrote "The [...]
Taiwan ban highlights hypocrisy
It never fails to amuse us here at the CSA when we see countries such as Taiwan who blindly join the import ban of seal products because of false and misleading propaganda ( we refuse [...]
Government industry loan to Carino processing almost paid back
December 21, 2012 - The government of Newfoundland and Labrador has been repaid just over half of a $2-million loan it provided a company to help boost this year’s commercial harp seal hunt. Provincial fisheries [...]