Pam Anderson launches anti-seal hunt campaign Oct 25, 2009
Canada's East Coast seal hunt, which occurs annually from mid-November to mid-May, mostly in Newfoundland and Labrador and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is the largest in the world, killing an average of 300,000 harp seals annually. Animal rights groups have protested the annual hunt, saying it is cruel, poorly monitored and provides little economic benefit. (USA Today -- Life)
* Baywatch star launches baby seal campaign Oct 25, 2009
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New Insights Into Marine Ecosystems And Fisheries Production Oct 19, 2009
19, 2009) NOAA and Norwegian researchers recently completed a comparative analysis of marine ecosystems in the North Atlantic and North Pacific to see what factors support fisheries production, leading to new insights that could improve fishery management plans and the ecosystems. Known as MENU, for Marine Ecosystems of Norway and the U.S., the collaborative project involved scientists at the NOAA Fisheries Service s Northeast Fisheries Science Center and Alaska Fisheries Science Center and... (Science Daily)
Juvenile Bluefin Tuna Found To Dive To Depths Of More Than 1000 Meters Oct 2, 2009
6, 2008) A 1,250-pound giant bluefin tuna caught in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada had the honor of being released with the 1000th electronic tracking tag placed on this depleted species by the Tag-A-Giant. (Oct. (Science Daily)
High Numbers Of Seed Scallops On Georges Bank, Low Numbers In Mid-Atlantic Aug 31, 2009
30, 2009) A NOAA Fisheries scallop survey off the northeastern coast between North Carolina and Massachusetts shows high numbers of juvenile "recruit" sea scallops and ocean quahogs on Georges Bank tempered with weak numbers for seed scallops in the Mid-Atlantic for 2009. This survey, which included the first successful use of a scallop dredge and high resolution underwater imaging system from the same vessel, also shows the overall biomass for the Mid-Atlantic remains high. (Science Daily)
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner, Book R... Aug 19, 2009
The setting further includes a remote island near Venezuela and T te-;-la-Baleine, a small French-speaking community on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec. Nicolas Dickner wrote most of the novel as a writer in residence in Bamberg, Germany. (Suite101.com)
Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula Region Hit by Magnitude-4.1 Earthquake, USGS Says Jul 22, 2009
The temblor struck at 10:20 a.m. local time at a depth of 18 kilometers in the Gaspe Peninsula region, near where the St. Lawrence River meets the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the USGS said. Last Updated: July 21, 2009 10:44 EDT. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
Bicycling through Quebec Jul 20, 2009
The Route Verte passes through Montreal and the cobblestone streets of old Quebec City, meandering from the Ontario border in the west to the windswept Magdalen Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the east. In some places, it follows the nationwide Trans-Canada Trail. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Why Do They Club Seal Pups? Jul 7, 2009
On the other major hunting groundthe Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the hunt began on Saturdaythe hunters take advantage of larger floes to leave their vessels with clubs in hand. Conditions also vary from year to year: This season's warm weather has led to thin ice shelves in the gulf, so hunters have had to use their rifles much more than they typically would. (Slate)
NYT: Canadian chefs add seal to the menu Jul 2, 2009
Canada allows two distinct hunts each year: a small one by Inuits in the Arctic, mainly a subsistence hunt for food, and the much larger Gulf of St. Lawrence hunt on the Atlantic coast, driven primarily by the fur trade. Click for related content. (MSNBC -- International)
Canada's governor general eats seal heart May 27, 2009
A young harp seal rests on the ice floes during the annual East Coast seal hunt in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence around Quebec's Iles de la Madeleine on March 25. Offbeat stories. (AZCentral -- News)
For Northern Shrimp Populations In North Atlantic, Timing Is Everything May 15, 2009
The Science study looked at stocks of Northern shrimp, also called pink shrimp, in the Gulf of Maine, on the Scotian Shelf and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Newfoundland and Labrador, on the Flemish Cap, off western Greenland and Northern Iceland, in the Barents Sea and off Svalbard, a group of islands between Norway and the North Pole. The spring phytoplankton bloom occurs at different times in different latitudes because sunlight and sea surface temperatures, the primary triggers for onset... (Science Daily)
* Missing Canadian sealer found drifting on ice [j\yH May 12, 2009
A sealer standing next to a dead seal during the 2009 Canadian commercial seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, on March 24, 2009 ... Hong Kong singer/actress Karen Mok lies next to a harp seal pup on an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada in this photo taken March 6, 2009. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Whales make comeback, other marine life in peril May 6, 2009
There has been a moratorium since 1994 on fishing the Newfoundland population, but fisheries in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and on the Scotian Shelf continue. Dr. Hutchings termed the decline extraordinary and said, I'm worried about anything that's declined by more than 90 per cent. He said such major declines threaten to destabilize whole ecosystems by eliminating a key fish species. (Globe and Mail)
Corridor Updates Operations and Plans in New Brunswick May 5, 2009
Gulf of St. Lawrence. The Quebec government announced in its April budget that it is undertaking a strategic environmental assessment program in the Gulf of St. Lawrence to prepare the path for offshore oil and natural gas exploration and development ... - Deferment of the costs of a site survey at a proposed drilling location on the Old Harry prospect in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, for a net reduction of $0. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Hot Docs film reviews May 1, 2009
Travelling the once-Great Lakes from the northern reaches of Superior to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Waterlife is a dire warning in the vessel of a tone poem, simultaneously a lyrical paean to the lakes' lingering beauty and a relentless documentation of their rising toxicity. In a thirsty world, the millions of us who live by these shores have sullied our geographical blessing, both reaping and raping the lakes' bounty. (Globe and Mail)
Wanna get away, eh? Apr 19, 2009
Take a chunk of Vermont and plop it down in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and you can begin to envision how fertile Prince Edward Island really is ... In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the dozen or so Iles de la Madeleine (or Magdalen Islands) are unlike any other destination in Quebec -- green hillsides, long stretches of beach, red cliffs, and brightly painted houses. (Boston Globe)
Corridor Announces 2008 Year End Results and Reserves Mar 27, 2009
Corridor is a junior resource company engaged in the exploration for and development and production of petroleum and natural gas onshore in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Quebec and offshore in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Corridor currently has natural gas reserves in the McCully Field near Sussex, New Brunswick and has recently discovered crude oil reserves in the Caledonia Field near Sussex, New Brunswick. (CCNMatthews Press Releases)
Controversial Hunt Kills 19,000 Seals Mar 27, 2009
Sealers reached the government quota of 19,400 in the area off Quebec's Iles de la Madeleine in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, spokesman Phil Jenkins said. He said a smaller stage of the Gulf hunt will begin Friday. (Time.com)
East Coast seal hunt opens Monday Mar 23, 2009
Phil Jenkins, a spokesman for the federal Fisheries Department, says the hunt will start in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence around Quebec's Iles de la Madeleine. Only about 30 per cent of this year's 280,000 harp seal quota will be taken in the gulf, while the rest will go to the major hunt off Newfoundland's northern coast. (Globe and Mail)
Putin Stops Russian Baby-Seal Slaughter Mar 21, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009. A harp seal pup in eastern Canada's Gulf of St Lawrence in March 2003. (Fox News)
Before you march, consider the Inuit Mar 12, 2009
While the target of animal-rights protesters is the seasonal killing of seals by commercial fishermen on the ice floes around Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the impact of the protests threatens, once again, to have painful consequences on Inuit communities scattered throughout the Canadian Arctic. Inuit in Greenland will also feel the pain. (Globe and Mail -- National)
Front pages from around the globe Mar 9, 2009
In Canada, scientists said Atlantic cod in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are becoming skinny because they are having more trouble finding reliable sources of small prey like capelin. The paper says aquaculture is probably the greatest source of overfishing for prey species, accounting for 81 per cent of the small fish that are caught and ground up into meal or oil to feed farmed fish. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Evolution may be picking up speed, scientists say Feb 24, 2009
Douglas Swain, of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, published research in 2007 showing that after a decade of very little fishing, Gulf of St. Lawrence cod remain small for their ages. "This result supports the hypothesis that there have been genetic changes in growth in this population in response to size-selective fishing," according to Swain. (Boston Globe)
Charming Canada: Landscapes, farmhouses and major cities provide history and intrigue Feb 12, 2009
The ragged shore extends to the skyline, the shear, rusty cliffs jutting out unevenly into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Standing on top of the bluffs, we looked out over the Gulf and along the entire shoreline, the white beaches divided by the red rocks. (Carroll County Times, MD)
