Fur Auction: Inuit sell pelts to 1 auctionhouse in Canada, which meets in Seattle 4 times per year.
Public Service Announcement - Sealskin Purchase Program -14 May 2015 
The Department of Environment has increased the purchase price for sealskins by 25% under the Sealskin Purchase Program.

The program supports Nunavut harvesters by offering guaranteed prices for cleaned and dried sealskins. Depending on the size and quality of each skin, prices now range from $34 to $75. Skins are valued and purchased by conservation officers at your local wildlife office.

The sale of sealskins is an important source of income for Nunavut hunters. It helps promote continued access to a renewable resource and contributes to food security in our communities. -source

Dismal sales of seal skins this past year have prompted the Nunavut government to make thousands of unsold pelts available to people within the territory.

Many of the 10,000 seal pelts from Nunavut did not sell earlier this year at the Fur Harvesters Auction house in North Bay, Ont., as buyers backed off when the European Union moved to ban the import of seal products.

About 10,000 seal skins from Nunavut were shipped to the Fur Harvesters Auction House for sale in the past year, but the sale of those pelts drastically dropped as buyers around the world became aware of the EU's pending seal product ban.

"In the last two years that the ban's been building up towards this implementation of the ban, the market's been getting tougher and tougher," said James Gibb, public relations director with the auction house.

Awa said the Nunavut government will decide next year whether to allow the seal skin purchasing program to continue, depending on how well it is received. -source

Nunavut government says it sends all Seal Food Hunt pelts to the fur harvester's auction.

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French actress, singer, dancer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist. She was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s and was widely referred to by her initials, B.B. Bardot was an aspiring ballerina in her early life.

The first celebrity icon of the seal ban was a French celebrity, and she was used as a symbol in favour of the seal ban by French media companies.

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"Can now only by bought in Europe or Japan" (2009)
Over 3 dozen places to buy Paraboots in France.
French sealskin shoe Paraboot is selling for over $700 CDN (2019) -source

Regulations of the European Union ("EU Seal Regime") generally prohibiting the importation and placing on the market of seal products, with certain exceptions, including for seal products derived from hunts conducted by Inuit or indigenous communities (IC exception) and hunts conducted for marine resource management purposes (MRM exception).