Fisheries Minister bans five seal-hunt observers

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Fisheries Minister bans five seal-hunt observers

Canadian Press

ST. JOHN'S -- The federal Fisheries Minister has taken the unusual step of banning five people from observing the East Coast seal hunt.

Loyola Hearn made the decision this week, and it's thought to be the first time a fisheries minister has used this authority.

Steve Outhouse, the minister's spokesman, said yesterday that the ban applies to five of the seven observers arrested last weekend when their boat apparently got too close to a sealing vessel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Three members of the Humane Society of the United States, which has staged high-profile protests against the annual hunt, and two foreign journalists are now prohibited from observing the hunt.

Full story: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060401.SEALS01/TPStory/National


Seal killer and "national hero" Nikolai Hemmingsen brutally hooks a baby harp seal.
Archive Photo: Sea Shepherd

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1. Connecticut Businesswoman Makes $16 Million Offer to Canadian Prime Minist

Full breaking story: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2006/04/c2188.html

Connecticut Businesswoman Makes $16 Million Offer to Canadian Prime Minister to End Slaughter of Canadian Baby Seals


NEW CANAAN, Conn., April 4 /CNW/ -- In a just-released letter to
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Cathy Kangas, CEO and Founder of PRAI
Beauty, a global beauty company, has offered to raise the $16 million that
Canadian fishermen will realize from the sale of the pelts of slaughtered baby
seals. Ms. Kangas wrote: "If you stop this year's hunt immediately, we will
provide you with the $16 million to be distributed at your discretion." The
Canadian government has stated repeatedly that the seal hunt provides needed
off-season income to the fishermen in the communities of the Gulf of St.
Lawrence and Newfoundland.

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2. Way to go Canada

Taking lessons from the US Pentagon, in managing the news

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3. Is this area of Canada so bad off economically

that local people are forced to resort to bludgeoning seals just to make ends meet?