By Jim Winter. DEAR ELLEN, It saddens me to see that you have bought into the vicious propaganda of the animal rights corporations and have both financially and verbally supported their attacks on the lives of thousands of rural Canadians whose sealing contributes a part of their annual livelihoods People whose earnings to support their… Continue reading Refuting seal propaganda
Seal hunting : a multi-millenary activity For centuries, seal hunting has been a major economic activity linked to the cultural core of the Indians, Inuit and Euro-Canadians living along the shores of the cold water seas (Arctic, Labrador, Gulf of St. Lawrence) of Canada. In the last two regions, traces of this activity have been… Continue reading Seals overview
By Jim Winter. BANG…………….. One dead seal out of a population of about 7 million 500 thousand. For over 50 years Canadian marine mammal scientists have studied the Harp seal herd off the east coast of Canada so we have a very, very good understanding of them. From this science the government of Canada sets… Continue reading Opinion: Animal rights corporations’ attacks on Faroe Islands and Canada are a labyrinth of lies
By Jim Winter, founding president, Canadian Sealers Association. The European Union recently announced that products made from seals hunted by Inuit people can continue to be sold in the EU despite the 2009 ban that prevents the importation or sale of all other seal products. It is impossible to imagine a sealing policy that would… Continue reading EU, BRITISH AND AMERICAN SEALING POLICY IS HYPOCRITICAL AND ANTI- DEMOCRATIC
The Benefits of Trade in Seal Products AT ONE WITH NATURE Visitors to the northern reaches of the world are struck by the natural beauty of the rugged landscape, the purity of the air, and the abundance of sea life in the oceans. Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Finland and Sweden lay claim to some of… Continue reading SEALS AND THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
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