Seal pelts on your shopping list? Coleman’s flyer features unusual item

December 11, 2015 Canada

It’s something you might not expect to find at your local grocery store, but retailer Coleman’s says selling seal pelts is good business. The grocery chain has been selling pelts since last year, but a recent flyer ad featuring Newfoundland seal pelts for $129 and up sparked interest on Twitter. “Once we did list them with our stores I know there were a few raised eyebrows, even from our management team once [buyer] Matthew Coleman suggested. ‘let’s sell seal pelts,’ but they just took off with such approval from the customers.” Read the article here 14:09

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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