TORONTO (Reuters) - Hundreds of villages in Atlantic Canada that depend on seal hunting for much of their livelihood are already feeling a sharp economic pinch from a European ban on seal products ...

TORONTO, April 19 -- More than 100 fishing boats struggling to return from the annual seal hunt with about 400 people aboard were trapped in shifting pack ice off Newfoundland, helpless as an Arctic ...

A seal hunt is under way in Newfoundland, where the Canadian government has granted hunters a higher quota for seals. Hunting advocates say decades of prohibition have nullified any concerns over a ...

Ottawa - A Connecticut businesswoman offered Canada $16-million to immediately end a controversial seal hunt, she wrote in an open letter to the prime minister on Wednesday, but Canada is not biting. ...

GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE — Sealers took to the thawing ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean on the first day of Canada’s contentious seal hunt Saturday, sparking confrontations with animal rights activists ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. – The Newfoundland and Labrador government says Ottawa should launch a challenge through the World Trade Organization if Russia imposes trade restrictions on the importing of harp ...

Issued also in French under title: Des hommes et des phoques. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri=full=3100001 ...

The hunt is led by Meeka Mike, who has spent her life understanding the seal and its meaning to her people, the Inuit. She is a woman who respects the Arctic, its cold and its animals. As she hunts, ...

Since its lowest point in the 1970s, the Baltic ringed seal population has grown from about 5,000 to 25,000 individuals. Behind this increase are hunting bans and the phasing out of environmentally ...

GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE (AP) -- Sealers took to the thawing ice floes off the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, the first day of Canada's contentious seal hunt, confronting animal rights activists who claim ...