The Department of Fisheries and Oceans says the grey seal population in Atlantic Canada continues to grow, but at a slower rate than in previous years. DFO's 2016 stock assessment estimates the ...

Membertou First Nation wants to revive the seal hunt in Nova Scotia and find new ways to use seal byproducts. The band has been piloting a grey seal harvest and is teaching community members how ...

The report, drafted by the Fur Institute of Canada, is aimed at creating new markets to support an earlier proposal to kill 140,000 grey seals over five years in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence ...

A rare piece of research equipment was recovered on the Scotian Shelf after it spent three years lost at sea, and its contents could contain valuable information about the behaviour of grey seals on ...

More than 3,200 grey seal pups were born along a section of the Norfolk coast this season – slightly fewer than last year and possibly due to them finding new breeding grounds elsewhere. The ...

Seal hunters typically slaughter about 1,000 grey seals in the Gulf every year, even though the allowable catch is about 50,000.

Marine animal and emergency officials rescued a large grey seal stranded in a popular Nova Scotia park on Saturday. It’s still not clear how the 600-pound mammal ended up in an off-leash dog ...