IFAW Seal Hunt Diary - 3.30.2007

The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced the 2007 Total Allowable Catch or TAC for this year's seal hunt. This short video highlights the call and features Senior IFAW Researcher Sheryl Fink talking about the decision to allow 270,000 marine mammals to be killed inspite of high mortality rates.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• IFAW
• Seals
• DFO
• Hunt
• Fink
• Sheryl
• TAC

[nitoc219orionid]

European people! You're against sealers! Great job! Whole EU just voted to ban seal products!

Americans! You're against Canadian sealers too! USA has made Sealers acts a FEDERAL Offence!

Canadians! You've also turned against sealers after finding out sealers are docking good Canadian people's paychecks to pay for financial losses of their hunt.

Everyone is against them! ALL can help!

~Boycott all Canadian seafood!

~Tell restaurants not to serve it

~Tell travel agents Boycott canada tourism!

[WildernessRanger291]

CALL TO ACTION! All the good canadians are reporting criminal Canadian Sealers the police! There are only a tiny hoarde of about 6000 cowardly sealers hurting millions of good Canadians. Good citizens living in Sealing communities are now watching sealers for crimes and reporting them to the RCMP! REPORT THEM! For: -illegal lobsters -Overfishing cod -illegal firearms -not enough life jackets onboard -operating while intoxicated -expired license -Dumping Litter -Toxic bilge -all violations!

[XB70Playboy]

Oh well then let's just all go out and kill every animal on the planet and give the microbes of the world the best banquet they've ever indulged in. No, feeding other wild animals isn't even an argument for continuing the seal hunt. Why don't you watch my video "Inuit Vs. Commercial Seal Hunt". Unless seals are totally consumed as are cows, pigs, chickens and just about anything else the human population agrees upon as normal human behavior, your hunt will remain stigmatized.

[223gunner]

take a seal cut off its flippers then take all the meat off the carcass then weigh it to compare, the flippers would have 75% more meat then the carcass & besides seal meat do not rot on ice it will be eaten by birds , fish & animals by the way nothing is wasted in the wild !

[cowsfromalaska]

oh ok yeah thats great to know man.

ill have to go do some more research on the the subject. but i am against hunting without eating the animal so i think we're definately on agreement there

thanks again dude!

[XB70Playboy]

To say that seal meat is "not edible" would be a lie. The aboriginal populations resort to eating seal meat in lean times. However, the majority consensus is that seal meat is only fit for dogs to eat. In fact that's how the Inuit feed their dogs; seal meat. Now, the people of Newfoundland and Labrador have found that the flippers only are worthy of non-survival mode consumption, but that's it. That's why you see 90% of the seal meat left on the ice to rot by the commercial killers.

[cowsfromalaska]

im pretty sure that they eat the meat. i mean all the activists want to do away with canadian seafood right? haha

but if its only for the fur then yeah thats messed up. but thought the meat was eaten

[XB70Playboy]

Well, no, people who eat meat DO have the right to complain. Harp Seal fur is not edible. Baby cow, pigs and rabbits are not killed for their fur alone. Baby harp seals are. It's for fashion. And since the demand for harp seal fur is smaller than the supply, many harp seal babies are slaughtered for not Their furs are burned before the next season starts anyway.

[cowsfromalaska]

dude i couldnt agree more man!

ill bet most of these people who complain about it eat meat, therefore they have no right to complain

[XB70Playboy]

Yeah. "Lobsters" and other "seafood". You mean the kind their are so damn ugly that they have moratoriums on the harvest of juveniles? You mean those? Funny how Newfies

and Labs think the Harp Seal should be deprived of the same courtesies extended even to animals as ugly as "Lobsters". A little equal rights would be nice here.