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

[jagmanvdp]

I have never seen a string of comments with so much bad information in it before. As long as people keep feeding each other the wrong facts, as long as the DOF is allowed to twist their numbers and claim that, because they can't count the number of seals, there must be lots of them....the issue will never be brought out into the light and shown to be what it is....a long held cultural tradition held by people in the East, who use it now as a source of money because they (DOF) killed the fishery.

[neongreen9]

Thats still revolting!

[OmatTalesh523]

Congratulations Americans! USA has Banned Canadian sealers & your country has made it a Federal Crime by order of the US Government! If you're an American, you're against this small hoard of seal killers. Nice Job!

And to all Europeans! If you're from Europe, all of you just Voted to Ban all inhumane Canadian Seal products!! Excellent work!

Everyone can help! BOYCOTT CANADA!

Dump Canadian Seafood. Show hunt photos to restaurant & supermarket owners & tell them to cancel all orders!

[markdj431]

The canadian govt's "management" plan still allows for the seal numbers to drop very very far below the lowest level they have ever reached, which was 1.8 million in the 1970s. The seal population is now endangered. The brutal slaughter of seals is a personally lucrative off-season activity conducted by a few 1000 east coasters. Their income is mainly from commercial fisheries such as crab shrimp and lobster throughout the year. Only a tiny fraction of their economy is from massacring seals.

[markdj431]

The Cod and other fish populations were wiped out by the gross incompetence and the corruption and greed of the Canadian DFO. IT IS VERY OBVIOUS that it is not the seals that have killed off the fish. The main diet of seals is squid and herring, and cod were abundant when seal population was at its highest level which they conveniently forget to mention in their propaganda.

[markdj431]

Typical Canadian government propaganda. There were originally 40 million seals on the east coast, and now seals are reduced to less than 10% of their original numbers. Now there are under three million seals and their population is falling because of the greedy seal massacre and ice loss due to global warming. There is also evidence to this day of massive cruelty and large percentages of seals that linger and suffer for hours.

[jsmallwood2007]

awsome piont regalodelmar...it is afterall a very limited harvest

[buckywtf]

how many of you have actually been on the ice flows and seen the seal hunt??????. So don't believe the propaganda the whining animanl activists put on you tube with the sappy background music.

[redsunrising]

not only that, but later in the year, their were over 100 boats STUCK IN THE ICE west of newfoundland... cause, hey, we all know THAT'S possible with minimal ice conditions.

[redsunrising]

at least somebody's got a decent head on their shoulders...

[redsunrising]

might i also add that every single school year of my life, i've passed with no less than honours, as have most of my friends, and maybe if I'm not so furious as to your above comment by the time I've finished my midterm exams, I will be respectful enough to you as to send you a list of Newfoundlanders that have made unbelievable achievements in the past. Maybe then, you won't be so arrogant as to use racism as a tactic to get your point across on an issue.