Eastern Canadian Seafood Industry in Decline Canadian Seafood Boycott

[Omaha Steve]

Eastern Canadian Seafood Industry in Decline as Canadian Seafood Boycott Gains Global Support

WASHINGTON - With the recent announcements of the economic problems facing the Newfoundland and Labrador fishing industry, The Humane Society of the United States, the largest animal protection organization in the United States, is imploring Canada to end the annual seal hunt.

In March 2005, after decades of urging the Canadian government to stop the commercial seal hunt, The HSUS and a coalition of the world's leading environmental and animal welfare organizations called for a boycott of Canadian seafood until the hunt permanently ends.

Since the launch of the seafood boycott, the value of Canadian snow crab exports to the United States has dropped by $158 million CAD compared to the same time frame in the previous year -- a 32 percent decline.

Full story: http://www.hsus.org/press_and_publications/press_releases/eastern_canadian_seafood_boycott.html



http://store.estreet.com/seashepherd/Detail.bok?no=46

[glarius]

1. Since there is also an American seal hunt off Alaska

it seems rather unfair to me that Canada is being singled out. The American seal hunt does not allow anyone close, therefore it is not featured in the anti seal hunt campaign. I am against the seal hunt myself, but one thing that is dishonestly displayed is the killing of "baby seals". This ended in the late 1980s, but of course it evokes great sympathy to show these pictures of the babies with their big eyes.

[flvegan]

5. Apples and oranges. The "Alaskan seal hunt"

is for nothing more than subsistance, and done for food (they use the whole animal). Also, the harvest usually ends SHORT of it's 1500-ish seal goal. They try to avoid taking females.

Big difference.

[Zhade]

6. Huge, enormous, possibly intentionally-omitted difference!

NT!

[Bill McBlueState]

2. is this decline news?

I thought the Eastern Canadian Seafood Industry had been in decline for several hundred years, what with the problems brought on by overfishing in colonial times. Interesting that the Humane Society is taking credit for it.

[Kagemusha]

3. Offhand I wouldn't call economic problems there "recent"

I can see they take full credit for every dollar lost in reduced sales here but... I recall that when reports of the boycott's bite first surfaced, a lot of restaurants who supposedly were participating hadn't heard their participation had been nominated without their consent, nor had they done anything different. Yet others were "boycotting" snow crabs by not selling them, which they didn't do before the boycott, nor will do after the boycott.

I've gotta wonder though. What's more moral about killing crabs than seals, anyway?

[LeftyMom]

4. Good!

:woohoo:

[Robbien]

7. We just killed 400 whales off of the coast of Africa

What is the Humane Society doing about that?

[Omaha Steve]

8. How much info you want to start?

These 400 dolphins were not killed by a hunt. At this time the cause of death is unknown.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/04/28/dolphins.ap/index.html

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) -- Hundreds of dead dolphins washed up Friday along the shore of a popular tourist destination on Zanzibar's northern coast, and scientists ruled out poisoning.

It was not immediately clear what killed the 400 dolphins, whose carcasses were strewn along a 2.5-mile stretch of Nungwi, said Narriman Jidawi, a marine biologist at the Institute of Marine Science in Zanzibar.

But the bottlenose dolphins, which live in deep offshore waters, had empty stomachs, meaning that they could have been disoriented and were swimming for some time to reorient themselves. They did not starve to death and were not poisoned, Jidawi said.



HSUS goes after W on whales.

HSUS COMMENDS SENATORS FOR LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH ON WHALES

Thursday, July 12, 2001

WASHINGTON (July 12, 2001) - The Humane Society of the United States, the nation's largest animal protection organization, is applauding a bi-partisan coalition of 28 Senators who sent a strongly worded letter in opposition to commercial whaling to President Bush just two weeks before the International Whaling Commission is set to begin its annual meeting.

http://ensign.senate.gov/issleg/issues/record.cfm?id=224269&

The Walmart sells whale meat story, HSUS is there too!

http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0404/et0404s14.html

http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/save_whales_not_whaling/us_seafood_giant_gortons.html

http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/save_whales_not_whaling/fact_sheets_on_whaling/

http://www.wdcs.org/dan/publishing.nsf/allweb/5B8FD8A374511BDF80256F3500551528

http://www.hsus.org/about_us/our_50th_anniversary_19542004/fifty_years_of_success_scenes_from_the_hsuss_first_five_decades/fragile_giants_saving_whales_by_stopping_whalers.html

http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/marine_mammals_news/hsus_asks_us_to_level_sanctions.html

http://www.oceania.org.au/soundnet/jun05/bar.html


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Write to U.S. Secretary Gutierrez and urge him to certify Japan and recommend that President Bush impose trade sanctions against the country for its continued disregard for the international ban on commercial whaling.

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The Hon. Carlos M. Gutierrez
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