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.

HK singer joins efforts to stop seal hunt [ 2009-04-03 09:23 ] Hong Kong singer/actress Karen Mok lies next to a harp seal pup on an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada in this photo taken ...

Anti-seal hunt campaigners are using similar props to that 1980s campaign shot again, as they mobilise against a commercial hunt targeting thousands of harp seals in eastern Canada.

Canadian harp seal hunters were working in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Wednesday with a quota of 400,000 seals for a vastly diminished international market. ... Canadian Atlantic seal hunt under way.

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.

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 ...

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 Canadian coast guard seized a boat belonging to opponents of seal hunting Saturday, the fisheries minister said, in a move described by the organisation as an "act of war." ...

Canada's annual seal hunt is set to get under way Monday despite the continuing outcry of animal rights activists and an international effort to ban imported seal products.

HALIFAX - As the annual East Cost seal hunt draws to a close, federal officials said that this season was one of the worst since the early 1990s, when the industry struggled to recover from a ...