Ár n-oileán Resources hopes to open seal processing plant in Tors Cove by 2024
"Newfoundland company says customers are begging for seal oil products" From: Barbara Dean Simmons - Saltwire journalist: November 18, 2022 Kendall Flood doesn’t worry that Ár n-oileán Resources won’t be able to find buyers for [...]
Seal Summit: Update – A good start but there is a mountain to climb
(Saltwire) If this were Mount Everest, we’re at the base and we’ve got a long way to go to get to the summit. That’s the analogy Dion Dakins uses to describe the work that lies [...]
Seal Summit: Min. Murray launches an open call for project proposals to increase our understanding of the role of seals in the ecosystem.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada Media Release November 9, 2022 The fishing industry has long been an important source of economic growth and development in Atlantic Canada, particularly in Indigenous and coastal communities. The Government of [...]
Inuit in Ottawa gain new access to fresh seal meat
"Reconseal Inuksiuti" recently marked two years in operation for founders Yoanis Menge and Ruben Komangapik with their hunting and harvesting initiative. "We came up with "recon-seal" as a play of words (a mix of) reconciliation [...]
Sealing the focus of Senate hearings in Ottawa
The Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, chaired by Newfoundland and Labrador Senator Fabian Manning, is studying Canada’s seal populations and their effect on Canadian fisheries. In a motion on Oct. 4, Manning proposed the [...]
Sealers Memorial 5th Annual Online Auction
Please support an important fundraiser for the Sealers Memorial 5th Annual Online Auction from Nov 3 - 7 where they have great items going up for bids. Funds for this auction will help support the [...]
Cooking seal tartar over an open pit fire with chef Todd Perrin (Audio)
It was very exciting to see one of Canada's best chef's Todd Perrin of Quidi Vidi's Mallard Cottage well renowned for it's excellent culinary reputation to feature seal tartar meat on an open fire pit [...]
Interview: Reflecting on the Seal Hunt and the Anti-Sealing Movement – A Conversation with former CSA President Jim Winter
We are pleased to include an interview with former CSA president Jim Winter completed in December 2021 by Dr. Danita Catherine Burke, founder of Women in the Arctic and Antarctic, as part of her research [...]
Research paper: The Case for a Greenpeace Apology
Below is an abstract from a research paper conducted by Danita Burke, a J.R. Smallwood Foundation Fellow, Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. It was published by The Northern Review Journal number 51 [...]