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Newfoundland and Labrador seeks markets for seal products

Governments, organizations promote diversification of products to create more markets nationally and internationally – Cull the seals, save the cod. It’s a popular refrain, heard most loudly in Newfoundland and Labrador around this time of year as the Canadian commercial seal hunt is drawing to a close and as the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) releases quotas for cod and other groundfish species. The list of countries banning the import of seal products altogether climbed to 35 on the eve of the hunt last month when India — a country of 1.3 billion — joined the likes of the United States, Russia, Mexico and all of Europe. >click to read<09:41

Minister Keith Hutchings – Time may be right to discuss U.S. seal products ban

Recent comments in the national media by Bruce Heyman, the United States ambassador to Canada, that he wanted to foster deeper trade relationships between the U.S. and individual provinces of Canada got Keith Hutchings thinking about seals. Hutchings, the province’s minister of Municipal and Provincial Affairs, decided to write to Heyman about the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) passed by the U.S. Congress in 1972 that includes a ban on seal products being imported into the U.S. Read the rest here 13:54

Seal hunt far from dead, as facts can demonstrate

863a4ac9dc_64635696_o2Here are some numbers these academics should also consider: There is a demand for seal products. Between 2005 and 2011, Canada exported over $70 million US worth of seal products to more than 35 countries. The hunt supports our domestic fishery. Beside what the hunt provides, we need to account for what it prevents. There are over 7.3 million harp seals in Atlantic Canada, each of them eating up to $4,000 worth of fish products. In the 2013 seal season alone, 92,000 seals were taken, saving $3.6 billion worth of product for the fishing industry. more@vancouversun  18:26

EU spars with Canada, Norway at WTO over seal ban

GlobalPost – The European Union locked horns Monday with Canada and Norway at the World Trade Organisation over its hotly contested ban on the import and sale of seal products. The EU was hauled before the WTO’s dispute settlement body by Ottawa and Oslo after imposing a ban in 2010 due to what it says are inhumane hunting methods. continued