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 hunt, ...

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. This ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Canada’s fisheries minister courted Chinese ...

Thousands of sealers armed with clubs, rifles and spears headed for the ice floes off eastern Canada on Tuesday for the world’s largest seal hunt, one expected to bring poor coastal communities ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. TORONTO — Canada’s annual seal hunt got under way Thursday despite a ...

TORONTO (AP) -- Canada's annual seal hunt started Monday, under pressure from a possible European Union ban on imported seal products. The world's largest marine mammal hunt was called "inherently ...

TORONTO — Canada announced Thursday that hunters can kill 270,000 harp seals this spring, despite environmentalists' protests that thousands of pups too young to swim have fallen through ice thinned ...

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island -- The film image shows a hulking seal hunter walking across the ice in pursuit of a baby seal as it wobbles to escape. The hunter stomps on the seal's tail, raises ...

Ottawa - Canada is the victim of "an international propaganda campaign" by animal rights activists and will not stop its controversial seal hunt, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Friday, one day ...

OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, April 13, 2011 (ENS) – Canada’s annual seal hunt opened Monday off northeastern Newfoundland in an area called The Front, but few sealers went to the ice amid low demand for ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Mark Small is fed up with being portrayed as a bloodthirsty killer for his part in an annual cull in which about 300,000 young seals are shot or clubbed to death on ice floes off ...