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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Atlantic Seal Science Task Team Report
May 12-2022 Today, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, the Honourable Joyce Murray, announced that the report from the Atlantic Seal Science Task Team is [...]
Seal Fishery Opening – April 8
DFO advises Newfoundland and Labrador Seal harvesters that the seal fishery will re-open in Sealing Areas 4 to 23 and Sealing Areas 25 to 27 at 0600 hours on [...]