Transport Canada proposes new vessel safety regulations
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 [...]
Seal Information Session
2016 Personal Use Seal License Information Session DFO advises that there will be a Seal Information Session for new applicants requesting Personal Use Seal licenses at the following location: [...]
Prime Minister visits Northern Lights Trade Show
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]