RANKIN INLET, Nunavut — Canada’s governor general ate a slaughtered seal’s raw heart in a show of support to the country’s seal hunters, a display that a European Union spokeswoman today ...

A harp seal that was rescued near death in Lavallette and nursed back to health by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center was spotted this week after making his way to Nova Scotia in Canada. The harp ...

A harp seal that was rescued near death in Lavallette and nursed back to health by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center was spotted this week after making his way to Nova Scotia in Canada. The harp ...

Indeed, the population of seals on Canada’s east coast is now 6 million, three times what it was in the 1970s, making them a major threat to fish stocks. (See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.) ...

Moving a seal, or enticing or causing it to move, and swimming with a marine mammal are both illegal acts under Canada’s ...

The federal Fisheries Department says up to 90 per cent of Canada’s exports of harp seal pelts have been shipped to Russia in the past, most of which were first exported to Norway. But the ...

About 70,000 harp seals were hunted this year out of a commercial quota of 273,000 animals, a Fisheries and Oceans Canada spokesman said. The long hunt ended earlier this week.

Canada begins seal hunt, under EU fire L.A. Times Archives March 24, 2009 12 AM PT Associated Press ...

"It's a fairly large population" of nearly 300,000 seals that "go back and forth between Canada and the U.S.," Young said. "So the 10,000 that are on a specific beach today are not the same 10,000 ...

The only subtropical seal native to the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico once numbered more than 250,000, but overhunting left the population unstable. The last confirmed sighting was in 1952.

The young grey seal appeared on the sand around 11 a.m. Wednesday where it spent the night and was back in the ocean early Thursday morning, Myrtle Beach State Park says.