Canadian Seal Hunt Quota Set at 335,000 (obscene)

[donsu]

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2006/2006-03-16-06.asp


Canadian sealers will be permitted to kill 335,000 seals this year, Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Loyola Hearn announced Wednesday. While the minister said the quota was a balance between conservation and economics, environmental groups were appalled.

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As part of the 2006-2010 Atlantic Seal Management Plan, Hearn said a quota of 325,000 is set for the regular hunt, plus an additional 10,000 harp seal allowance has been set aside for new aboriginal initiatives, personal use and Arctic hunts. This one-year allowance will provide opportunities for aboriginal communities to access the resource and benefit from this growing market, Hearn said.

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Canada exports seal products in three forms: sealskins, seal oil and seal meat. Exports of seal meat have declined in recent years due to a sharp decline in exports to Asia, the DFO said in a 2005 analysis of the 2003-2005 Atlantic Seal Management Plan. Asia was replaced by Europe as the main destination for seal oil and skins, but it remains the principal market for seal meat exports.

In 2002, sealers harvested 312,367 harp seals, the DFO analysis shows. There were four major seal buyers/processors in Newfoundland and Labrador, one in Prince Edward Island and one in the Magdalen Islands. In Newfoundland and Labrador, these companies purchased a total of approximately 284,827 harp seal pelts and 2,426 other seal pelts having a landed value of $21 million. Meat and other products were valued at less than $1 million.
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there are pictures of the men killing the baby seals

pictures of the bloody dead seals

they call themselves 'hunters'

[GrumpyGreg]

1. Whenever something about this is shown on TV I have to turn the set off I

get so upset.


Big,brave hunters----right !!!!!

[OneBlueSky]

2. how humans can do this to sentient beings -- and unbearably . . .

cute baby ones at that -- is beyond my comprehension . . . there is something very, very sick about a man hammering the shit out of a baby seal solely to procure its pelt for human vanity . . .