The quota for the harp seal hunt off Canada's east coast this spring has been set at 400,000 animals by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The total allowable [...]

March 15, 2011 Minister Shea Welcomes Norway's Challenge of the European Union's Seal Ban at the World Trade Organization The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today [...]

Canada will get to challenge the European Union's trade ban on seal products at a World Trade Organization dispute panel. The WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, which met in Geneva [...]

A new study from the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat, says the experiment would determine whether significantly reducing the grey seal population in the Gulf would help cod stocks recover [...]

Harp seals from Atlantic Canada are showing up in U.S. waters in greater numbers and farther south than usual, and biologists want to know why.Small numbers of juvenile harp [...]

December 2010Devouring Our Cod Stocks Watch graphic evidence of cod stocks being depleted by hundreds of seals in Triton. Video was shot December 24th, 2010.Video courtesy of Dennis Smeaton

Feb. 17 - 2011 Nova Scotia — An annual seal hunt that has become a battleground in the bitter conflict between sealers and anti-hunt activists is about to begin [...]

Canada is taking its fight against a European ban on seal products to a new level, the government said Friday.Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said in Ottawa that the [...]

People on the north coast of Labrador say scores of dead seals have been washing ashore since early December. A conservation officer with the area's Inuit government estimated late [...]

January 19, 2011The Atlantic Wide Seal Advisory Meeting will be held at the Delta on the 18 and 19 of January. It will focus on science, quotas for 2011, [...]