No seals to hunt this year
Rushlimbo
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Maybe these idiots will club each other this year. Human pelts have to be worth something, even though Canadian pelts would be worth a little less if based on the U.S. dollar exchange rate.
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Lack of ice set to kill start of Canadian seal hunt
By David Ljunggren
1 hour, 30 minutes ago
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.
"This is the first time I've ever seen this in 25 years ... for sure there is increased mortality," fisheries spokesman Roger Simon said from the Magdalen Islands.
"There is ice (south of the islands) but there are no seals on that ice," he added, saying the animals were now well out of the range of most of the hunters' vessels.
Activists say the hunt is cruel and unnecessary and want it to be scrapped. Ottawa is likely to spell out this week how many seals may be killed.
Canada says the seal population is a healthy 5.5 million animals and says the cull is needed to keep numbers under control. Last year's overall quota was 325,000 seals.
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.
"The conditions this year are disastrous. I've surveyed this region for six years and I haven't seen anything like this," said IFAW researcher Sheryl Fink.
"There is wide open water and almost no seals. I only saw a handful of adult harp seals and even fewer pups, where normally we should be seeing thousands and thousands of seals."
Simon said many of the seals had been blown due east into the Cabot Strait between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Some of them might eventually make their way back to the Magdalen Islands, he added.
"There may be some hunting on drifting ice floes but if there is, we don't expect it to be very significant," he said.
Fink told Reuters she had spent two days flying over the Cabot Strait and had spotted very few seals.
The main part of the hunt takes place in April off the northern and western coasts of Newfoundland, where ice conditions are average, Simon said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070327/wl_canada_nm/canada_seals_col
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Lack of ice set to kill start of Canadian seal hunt
By David Ljunggren
1 hour, 30 minutes ago
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.
"This is the first time I've ever seen this in 25 years ... for sure there is increased mortality," fisheries spokesman Roger Simon said from the Magdalen Islands.
"There is ice (south of the islands) but there are no seals on that ice," he added, saying the animals were now well out of the range of most of the hunters' vessels.
Activists say the hunt is cruel and unnecessary and want it to be scrapped. Ottawa is likely to spell out this week how many seals may be killed.
Canada says the seal population is a healthy 5.5 million animals and says the cull is needed to keep numbers under control. Last year's overall quota was 325,000 seals.
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.
"The conditions this year are disastrous. I've surveyed this region for six years and I haven't seen anything like this," said IFAW researcher Sheryl Fink.
"There is wide open water and almost no seals. I only saw a handful of adult harp seals and even fewer pups, where normally we should be seeing thousands and thousands of seals."
Simon said many of the seals had been blown due east into the Cabot Strait between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Some of them might eventually make their way back to the Magdalen Islands, he added.
"There may be some hunting on drifting ice floes but if there is, we don't expect it to be very significant," he said.
Fink told Reuters she had spent two days flying over the Cabot Strait and had spotted very few seals.
The main part of the hunt takes place in April off the northern and western coasts of Newfoundland, where ice conditions are average, Simon said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070327/wl_canada_nm/canada_seals_col
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Its no different than using a gun with wild game...sometimes one shot will kill and sometimes it will take more...point is that the animal still suffers.
The only people I feel that even have any sort of arguement to this are vegens.
I would never do this or watch it...however it has been a part of Maritime culture for over a hundred years.
However I could never kill a seal....they are like cats to me...way too cute.
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So are vegans the only people who actually have a conscience?
And just because it's tradition we should go on with it? Bullfight is a tradition in my country and it's still inhuman. Some ancient tribes used to scalp their enemies. That was a tradition. Uhhh.
I'm not saying you must be against seal hunting, but just cuz it is a tradition, it isn't necessarily correct.
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I didn;t watch more than a few secs past the intro,
If that link has images seals getting tortured and killed, you should probably make note of it.
It's disturbing to watch a defenseless animal suffer for most people.
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Click on the video/spoof Danny Williams on the budget and cheesies. If we called seals, cheesies everybody would want to eat em.
'cheesie' seal doesn't sound very appetizing.
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How about tossed around like a beach ball by an orca or two. Damn those orcas!
i took my car to the garage. the mechanic said i blew a seal. i told him leave my personal life out of it and fix the damn thing.
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I overheard a mechanic yesterday talking about how he had a loose seal. I thought nothing of it at the time until now.
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YOu are right about "cultural" not being valid. In Australia, Aboriginals are allowed to hunt dugong near Fraser Island, because it is traditional. The fact that they go out in aluminium boats with outbaords, and use rifles seems to be overlooked. I have far less problem wiht it happeninf in Northern Australia, where Aboriginals are,living more of a traditional lifestyle, to their benefit.
Hmmm...that's quite the assumption. All I was saying is this so called "hunt" has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with profit and greed. Take the money out of the equation and the Newfoundland fishermen wouldn't kill another seal. I respect other cultures. I don't respect utter cruelty and greed in the name of "culture". There's a difference.