Though the Canadian government set the seal quota at 273,000 when the season opened in March, the hunt closed in June with 70,000 seals being killed, BBC News reported. Fishermen's livelihoods are ...

Based at His Majesty’s Naval Base Clyde, the 96.8 meters long vessel – the length of two Olympic swimming pools – will work side-by-side with autonomous mine-hunting systems already operated ...

It saw use as a minesweeper during the Second World War, played a role in a British expedition to Greenland, all before sinking on May 5 1962, while being used as a seal-hunting vessel off the ...