Seal hunters return to the ice floes off Canada's (search) East Coast this Tuesday, with animal welfare activists vowing to vigorously protest the annual event that helps support the fishermen and ...

The contentious harp seal hunt, the target of protests since the 1960s, begins about 12 days after the seal pups are born and their fur changes from white to gray. ... told The Canadian Press.

Activists Decry Growth Of Canadian Seal Hunt. High Quota, 'Cruelty' and Lax Oversight Cited. April 17, 2004. By ...

OFF CANADA'S EAST COAST — Canadian hunters started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups Saturday at the start of an annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal-rights groups ...

Massive Canadian seal hunt ... numbers of the seals are at best “stabilising” according to a recent Canadian government report. Harp seal numbers were extremely low in the 1970s due to ...

Dramatically raising the Canadian seal-hunt quota — the very day that organized protests were being staged around the world — makes questionable scientific or economic sense, writes Northwest ...

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland — The global recession, plummeting pelt prices and the prospect of a European ban on seal products dramatically lowered the number of seals killed in this year’s ...

The three-step killing method recommended by the Independent Veterinarian’s Working Group and adopted by the Canadian seal hunt in 2008 to ensure seals are killed humanely.

Just as the gruesome annual Canadian seal hunt is winding down, the World Trade Organization has once again upheld the European Union’s policy of banning the commercial trade in seal products in ...

Morrissey has responded to a Canadian politician’s claim that he is “ignorant” about the country’s seal-hunting policies in a new post comparing seal hunts to Nazi Germany. Previously, he ...