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TORONTO — The recession, low pelt prices and a possible European ban on seal products lowered the number of seals killed in this year’s hunt, officials said Thursday. About 70,000 harp seals were ...

Canada’s East Coast seal hunt is the largest in the world, killing an average of 300,000 harp seals annually. Curbing the Canadian hunt was the focus of EU bill because of the size of the annual cull ...

TORONTO — Canada’s annual seal hunt started Monday, under pressure from a possible European Union ban on imported seal products. The world’s largest marine mammal hunt was called “inherently inhumane” ...

A Feb. 10 commentary in The Buffalo News titled, "Let's urge Canada to stop killing baby seals" included a number of misleading and erroneous statements regarding the seal hunt in Atlantic Canada.

Escalating a sporadic, 35-year-old protest campaign, opponents of Canada’s seal hunt are advocating a travel boycott, pushing their cause in the U.S. Senate, even recruiting Paris Hilton. Canadian ...

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island — Protesters alighting from helicopters to try to stop a seal hunt scuffled yesterday with sealers who fired warning shots — sending the protesters scurrying back ...

TORONTO -- About 12,000 sealers with rifles and spears headed for the ice floes and islands off eastern Canada on Monday in the world's largest seal hunt, followed by protesters condemning the $20 ...

I am angered to learn that the Canadian harp seal hunt still continues this year. Isn’t it time for more compassion for wild species? The commercial seal hunt is still practiced in certain regions of ...

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 ...