Lack of Ice Set to Kill Start of Canada Seal Hunt - Reuters

[Eugene]

Lack of Ice Set to Kill Start of Canada Seal Hunt

By David Ljunggren
Reuters

Mar 27, 2007 — OTTAWA (Reuters) - The first stage of Canada's
controversial annual harp seal hunt is likely to be scrapped
because the ice floes where pups are born have broken up and
many animals have drowned, officials and animal rights activists
said on Tuesday.

The first part of the hunt, which had been due to start on
Wednesday, occurs in the Gulf of St Lawrence to the south of the
Magdalen Islands on Canada's East Coast. Hunters move across
the ice floes, shooting and clubbing to death young seals.

Canada's federal fisheries ministry, which oversees the hunt, said
the pups had been born as usual this year but the ice floes had
then been blown far out to sea and started to break up before the
seals learned how to swim properly.

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The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said unusually
warm weather meant the ice cover south of the Magdalen Islands
was almost completely missing, adding it feared thousands of harp
seal pups had drowned.

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[ThomCat]

1. There isn't any good news here.

The pups are still dying. :cry:

Damn.

[GliderGuider]

2. OK, which animal rights activist found the Monkey's Paw?

Be careful what you wish for...

[hatrack]

3. If you remember only one thing, remember: this is just beginning

This is only the starting gun.

These are the baby steps, the first wriggles, the initial cracks and stutters of systems that are breaking down.

These will be the subtle, gentle changes, the prodrome, if you will.

[bananas]

4. the foreshadowing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadowing