Seal Fishery Re-Opening – April 6, 2023
March 28, 2023: DFO advises Newfoundland and Labrador Seal harvesters that the Commercial and Personal Use Seal fishery will re-open in Sealing Areas 4 to 23 and Sealing Areas 25 to 27 at 0600 hours [...]
When common sense and great ideas meet
Bait Masters of P.E.I. is a company that understands making bait should also have some common sense mixed into its ingredients. So the idea of adding seal meat to its bait sausages used to harvest [...]
Archives: Cute, cuddly, edible
Defending Canada's seal hunters Jun 2nd 2008: From an article in the Economist.com between a reporter and former CSA president Jim Winter and Aaju Peter. SUSTAINABILITY— whether in reference to farming, logging, fisheries, medicinal plants [...]
UPDATED: Seal Course March 24th “Quality,Handling and Health”
Update notice March 16, 2023 PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE The Workshop for the 23rd is now rescheduled for March 24, 2023. The Professional Fish Harvesters Certification Board (PFHCB) will be delivering Humane Harvesting and [...]
Two specific recommendations about seal science in new report
There were two specific recommendations about seal science in a new DFO report of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans for March 2023 which is chaired by Ken McDonald, Liberal MP for Avalon. One [...]
Commercial and Personal Use fishery closure for whelping
DFO advises that both the Commercial fishery and Personal Use fishery for Harp seals and Hooded seals will close in all areas to all seal harvesters and all fleets based in Newfoundland and Labrador at [...]
Video: Bob Hardy’s “Seals Eat Fish” presentation
Below is a video presentation from long time concerned seal harvest and seal predation activist Bob Hardy at the 2023 SeaNL annual general meeting in Gander this past weekend February 25th. As Bob states: The [...]
Opinion: Bob Hardy’s paper on full utilization of the seal
One of our most ardent supporters is fisheries consultant and industry advocate Robert Hardy sent us this file (PDF) presentation on how he once proposed to utilize the full seal for markets worldwide as a [...]
Obituary: Bernie Halloran
The Canadian Sealers Association is very sorry to hear of the passing of a great friend and fighter for our industry and heritage Bernie Halloran. He was 67. Bernie owned the very popular seal fur [...]