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Sealers seem determined to go down with their ships in wake of WTO decision

June 10, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

            ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland; Iqaluit, Nunatsiaq ––Ruling against an appeal by Canada and Norway against the European Union ban on imports of seal products, the World Trade Organization may have sunk the future economic prospects of the Atlantic Canada seal hunt.  But Canadian sealers appear to be more inclined to go down with their ships […]

Filed Under: Canada, Marine life, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Merritt Clifton, Newfoundland, WTO

Public moral concerns warrant EU seal product import ban, rules WTO

November 19, 2013 By Merritt Clifton

Beginning of the end for the Atlantic Canada seal hunt? BRUSSELS––The World Trade Organization on November 25,  2013 upheld most of the 2009 European Union ban on the import of seal products,  overturning the ban only when applied to “seal products derived from hunts conducted by Inuit or indigenous communities and hunts conducted for marine […]

Filed Under: Canada, Europe, European Union, Marine life, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: WTO

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