It’s an opinion shared by two veterinary science professors who penned a study in June 2012 that concluded, if proper killing methods are followed, the annual Canadian harp seal hunt is humane.

It is an image seared on the minds of animal lovers everywhere - a hunter, straddling a cuddly, white seal, a club poised to beat it into oblivion. Anti-seal hunt campaigners are using similar ...

CAP-AUX-MEULES, Quebec – 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 ...

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 March 6, 2009. The trip was part of the Humane Society of the ...

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.

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. Animal rights activists say the ...

Seal hunters returned to Canada’s East Coast on Tuesday, and animal activists vowed to protest the annual hunting season that helps support fishermen by culling what the government says is ...

Feb 29, 2012 - Anything being dismissed as "misinformation" by the Stephen Harper government just might be worth a look-see.

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 largest seal hunt for half a century started this week, prompting outrage from animal welfare campaigners who claim the slaughter is barbaric. Sealers are now at work on the northern ...