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Topic: Seal hunting

	SCS: Harp Seal (Phoca groenlandica)
		Sealing interests are however calling for photographers, whose presence is already severely restricted and who have been attacked by sealers, to be banned from recording the hunt altogether.
		For the 2001 sealing season Norwegian vessels were allocated hunt quotas of 15,000 adult harp seals on the West Ice (2 non-suckling pups deemed equal to 1 adult) and 5,000 adult harp seals on the East Ice (2.5 non-suckling pups deemed equal to 1 adult).
		Seal meat from the hunt was previously sold as food to fur farms but this has not occurred for the last few years as the farms are importing cheaper dried meat from Germany, many seal carcasses being left to rot near processing plants as a result.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/harp.htm (3070 words)

	Seal hunting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seal oil was often used as lamp fuel, lubricating and cooking oil, for processing such materials as leather and jute, as a constituent of soap, and as the liquid base for red ochre paint.
		Seal hunt protests have recently been organized in a number of countries but attendance was small in comparison to the protest's heyday in the early 1980s.
		Seal hunting advocates are often critical of the involvement of celebrities, on the grounds that hunters depend on the seals for their livelihood, while the anti-hunting celebrities have ample incomes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seal_hunting (3248 words)

	About the Canadian Seal Hunt \| The Humane Society of the United States
		In 2001, a report by an independent team of veterinarians who studied the hunt concluded that governmental regulations regarding humane killing were neither being respected nor enforced, and that the seal hunt failed to comply with Canada's basic animal welfare standards.
		Many seals are shot at and injured in the course of the hunt, and studies suggest that a significant number of these animals slip beneath the surface of the water, where they die slowly and are never recovered.
		Seals are killed primarily for their fur, which is used to produce fashion garments and other items.
	www.hsus.org /marine_mammals/protect_seals/about_the_canadian_seal_hunt (1523 words)

	Fisheries and Aquaculture Management - Seals and Sealing in Canada
		Reality: Hunting methods were studied by the Royal Commission on Seals and Sealing in Canada and it found that the clubbing of seals, when properly performed, is at least as humane as, and often more humane than, the killing methods used in commercial slaughterhouses, which are accepted by the majority of the public.
		Myth #5: The hunt is unsustainable and is endangering the harp seal population.
		While markets for seal pelts are subject to significant variation from one year to the next, the 2006 seal hunt was one of the most profitable in memory.
	www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca /seal-phoque/myth_e.htm (861 words)

	NAIA: Activists take aim at Canadian seal hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Seal oils are high in omega 3 fatty acids and amino acids for human health benefits; there is evidence that adding certain fatty acids from seal oil to the human diet can help prevent or treat heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, auto-immune diseases, or chronic inflammatory conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.
		In addition, commercial seal hunting to provide salable products for a national and international market is seen as a solution to several problems: it provides economic stability to eastern Canadian communities, offers usable products to consumers throughout the world, and helps control a growing population of an animal that also competes with man for fish.
		Commercial seal hunting licenses are limited to professional fishermen who often use the money from sealing to get their boats and equipment in shape for the summer fishing season - if the fishery is open.
	www.naiaonline.org /articles/archives/seal1.htm (1603 words)

	Why Are We Still Hunting Seals? :: thetyee.ca
		In 1983 the European Union banned the importation of harp seal pelts, the average Harp seal kill dropped to 40,000 pelts per year, and the herd recovered to approximately its 1950 level, 3.5 million, 10% of its peak.
		At the peak of the seal hunt, in the 1830s, hunters killed 700,000 Harp seals per year, devastating the herds.
		Hunting seals is something that northern people have been teaching their children for generations.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2005/04/11/HuntingSeals (1993 words)

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		In the eighteenth century, however, the seal hunts became mechanized and eventually expanded to an average catch of 450,000 animals a year.
		Although preservation efforts have increased the seal population and lessened the ecological threat, a strong reaction against seal hunting remains.
		Unfortunately, public attitudes against the seal hunts has contributed to the idea that the Eskimo is an inhumane barbarian who kills defenseless seals.
	www.american.edu /TED/babyseal.htm (2452 words)

	Ringed Seal
		There are four species of seal found in the coastal waters of our territory but for most communities the two most important species of hunted for food are the common or ringed seal that we call netsik, and the bearded or square flipper seal that we refer to as udjuk.
		Neither the common or bearded seal are migratory, but hunters explain that both of these seals tend to move about and change their areas of feeding and concentration from one season to the next.
		The distribution of the seals along the floe edge or under the land fast ice, establishes the primary geographical and ecological patterns that are reflected in our choice of winter hunting along the floe edge or at the breathing hole.
	www.itk.ca /environment/wildlife-ringed-seal.php (1309 words)

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		The seal pups left to die of hunger on the ice following their mothers' slaughter, and the seals that do manage to escape after they are shot, but later die in the water are not included in the statistics, she says.
		The seals are killed for their pelts, their penises (which are used to make aphrodisiacs in Asian markets), oil (which Canada promotes as a health supplement), and meat.
		Seals are a valuable natural resource, that, when harvested in a responsible manner, provide valuable income to about 15,000 Canadian sealers and their families," the statement said.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3057280,00.html (657 words)

	Canada's seal hunt: campaign mounts to ban all seal hunting off Newfoundland Current Events - Find Articles
		The annual seal kill is a legal "harvest" of harp seals and hooded seals, neither of which is an endangered species.
		Seal meat is sold for animal feed; some seal hides are used for leather; and parts of seals are dried and sold as medicines in China and other Asian countries.
		After electricity and petroleum eliminated the demand for seal oil, seals continued to be hunted for the fur of the whitecoat pups through this century.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_n11_v97/ai_20052782 (890 words)

	Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
		Harp seals are the most abundant species of seal in the Northwest Atlantic and are the main focus of the commercial hunt.
		Seals do not "eat all the fish" and are categorically not responsible for the collapse of cod populations or impeding the recovery of these fish.
		Harp seal diets consist of around 3% Atlantic cod and it is further thought that killing seals may delay the recovery of the cod because seals eat other fish species that prey on cod.
	www.caft.org.uk /factsheets/commercial-seal-hunting.html (1041 words)

	Seal-Hunting Tourism
		Hunting seals would be about as exciting a sport as hunting kittens in glass jars (without taking them out of the jars).
		Seals are clubbed for there coats, and baby coats are the softest, prettiest, and most marketable and so the victoms are the most helpless, those animals that are 0-12 days old are brutally murdered.
		Hunting seals does not benifit the seals, or does it benifit any other form of life, except for humans who are fuled by a lust for money, in this case blood money.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /hoax/weblog/comments/1380 (1634 words)

	IWMC.org - Seal Hunting - Paul Charest
		Harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) is the only species hunted from the middle of December to April, that is, during its period of migration in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
		The seals are killed instantly in the water by the shot of a rifle to the head.
		In some good years up to 2,000 seals have been killed but in the last few years the catch has dropped to only a few hundred, mainly because of the climate conditions: windy days are more and more common, according to the hunters.
	www.iwmc.org /IWMC-Forum/Articles/040620-01.htm (572 words)

	Canada set for mass seal hunting - Vegan Represent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Seals, also, are gentle, trusting animals, so "hunting" them is equivalent to walking up to a 4 year old child with a baseball bat to beat him / her to death.
		Most Canadians oppose the seal hunt, but for some reason all the major political parties in Canada are kowtowing to the handful of people who are in favour of it.
		Seal hunting is a stressful, physically demanding, and low-paying job, as well as being horrible for the seals.
	www.veganrepresent.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3507 (1765 words)

	seals
		The seal hunt is one of the very few hunts that occur in the spring when young are being born.
		In essence, the sealing industry believes that widely publicised video from the past five seal hunts only shows isolated incidents which can be addressed through better training and limited changes to sealing regulations.
		Landed catch statistics are used to assess the number of seals killed, and to determine whether the seal hunt occurs at a level that is sustainable.
	www.liberation-mag.org.uk /seals.htm (2380 words)

	Canada's Unsustainable 2003-2006 Seal Hunt Plan \| The Humane Society of the United States
		The harp seal hunt is sometimes represented as a part of Canada's culture, not unlike indigenous whaling, but in truth, it is just another commercial hunt.
		The seals are killed for their pelts, their penises (which are used to make aphrodisiacs in Asian markets), oil (which Canada promotes as a health supplement), and meat.
		The country's commercial seal hunting season runs from November 15 to May 15, but hunters do most of their killing in the spring.
	www.hsus.org /marine_mammals/protect_seals/canadas_unsustainable_2003_2006_seal_hunt_plan.html (912 words)

	Seal Hunting: A Cruel Slaughter on Ice: An All Creatures Animal Rights Article: justice, peace, love, compassion, ...
		The seal nursery, one of the world's great wildlife spectacles, is once again soaked in blood.
		It was there I first saw the seal slaughter on CBC television; horrific fl-and-white images of sealers clubbing baby seals.
		Some seals would bite at the gaffe as they were hooked through the mouth.
	www.all-creatures.org /articles/ar-sealhunting.html (882 words)

	Seal Hunting
		Many people don't know the true reality of a seal hunt, and just how barbaric it is. That is why I'm putting together this webpage to help educate you and get people to ban together to end the torture and killing.
		Once they do catch up to them and the seal realizes it can't get away, the seal will look up at them maybe in an attempt to scare off the hunter, or maybe they look up out of fear before having the hakapik come slamming down and crush their skull.
		Seal hunting is one of the largest mass-killings of marine life.
	www.geocities.com /jeniegirl27/SealHunting.html (1004 words)

	Seal Song: The Canadian Seal Slaughter
		It was not until the beginning of the 19th century that a large-scale commercial hunt for seals began in earnest in Newfoundland.
		Although harp seals are the primary focus of the commercial hunt, a smaller number of hooded seals (Cystophora cristata) are also commercially hunted each year.
		Although the movement of ice floes and ice conditions often determines the degree of hunting effort in any given area, the majority of the seal hunt occurs on the Front, off the north and east coasts of Newfoundland, and in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near the Magdalen Islands.
	www.animalsvoice.com /PAGES/features/seal.html (1172 words)

	Harstena - [ HISTORY / SEAL HUNTING ]
		In the old tax records from the 16th century one can see that seal hunting was of great importance and surely the seal attracted the fist settlers to the island.
		Hunting seals was an important source of income until the start of the 40's when hunting stopped due to falling prices.
		During the 60's and 70's almost the entire seal rookery in the Baltic Sea was wiped out due to pollutants and not until the 90's could you see distinct signs that the seals were recovering.
	www.harstena.se /en/historik/saljakt.htm (316 words)

	SCS: Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
		Although large-scale commercial hunting of grey seals has not taken place in recent years, it was revealed in 1998 that a sealers' organisation in Nova Scotia had asked the Canadian government for permission to kill 25,000 grey seals a year for the next three years and to market the resulting seal products.
		Grey seals on both sides of the Atlantic are killed through fisheries conflicts, the shooting of seals to prevent seal damage to nets, traps and catch being common in both fisheries and fish farming.
		The hunting of grey seals was banned throughout the Baltic Sea in 1988 by signatories to the Helsinki Convention.
	www.pinnipeds.org /species/grey.htm (2907 words)

	Who's afraid of…seal hunting? \| spiked
		Asked who’s afraid of seal hunting, conservationists would no doubt respond ‘the seals!’ But conservationists seem to see the world as a real-life version of Disney films and project their own sentimentality on to the animal world.
		Images of clubbed and shot seals, their blood splattered bright red against the white surroundings and spreading across the ice, are not for the weak-stomached.
		The Canadian fishing authorities seem to agree that the ice melt is having an impact on seal numbers and have reduced the hunting quota from 335,000 cubs last season to 270,000 this year.
	www.spiked-online.com /index.php?/site/article/3047 (873 words)

	The Canadian Seal Hunt - Advocacy For Animals
		Since the 1960s, opponents of the hunt have taken photographs and films of hunts in progress to substantiate their claims of cruelty; their activities have sometimes resulted in violent confrontations with hunters and arrest by Canadian authorities (observers of the hunt are prevented by law from coming within 10 meters of any seal hunter).
		Partly in response to worldwide disapproval of the hunt, the Canadian government banned the killing of whitecoats in 1987; regulations in force since then stipulate that seal pups may be killed as soon as they begin to shed their coats, usually when they are 12 to 14 days old.
		The roughly 4,000 commercial fishermen who take part in the seal hunt each year use it to supplement their incomes during the fishing off-season; it is not a primary livelihood for any of the hunters.
	advocacy.britannica.com /blog/advocacy/2007/04/the-canadian-seal-hunt (3537 words)

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		Seal hunting, three species of seals are hunted in Iceland.
		We may hunt from a boat with a shotgun using slug or buck shot, a rifle or a bow and arrow - hunters choice.
		Or we may go on shore and shoot swimming seals or seals lying on sea rocks with a rifle at a distance from 100 to 300 meters.
	www.huntingiceland.com /seal_hunting.htm (422 words)

	Candid camera, underwater style
		A scientific first: The Weddell seal is the only animal known to use bubbles to scare fish from their hiding places under the ice.
		Davis says the seals often start their dives with a rapid descent from ice into the dark water, courtesy of a yet-unexplained ability to regulate their buoyancy.
		As Davis's group shines a light on seal behavior, similar instruments are being used on elephant seals and harbor seals, and on bottle-nose dolphins.
	whyfiles.org /061polar/seal.html (819 words)

	Annual Seal Hunting
		Unusually warm weather means the floes are a fraction of their normal size and thickness, prompting hunters to kill the seals individually rather than clubbing them to death en masse as they cluster on the ice in pools of blood.
		The hunting (?) and the protesting have been going on for as long as I remember and people are more aware that it happens and when it happens these days, but, it still happens.
		They call it a 'HUNT' well it's hardly a hunt because the seal pups just lay there, innocent to the fact that there are morons out their who think killing them is a good thing.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /eblah/b-newsissues/m-1143387531 (1330 words)

	CNN - Hunters, environmentalists tangle over seal hunting - March 27, 1998
		(CNN) -- The annual hunt for harp seals on the ice floes near Canada's eastern coast in the mid-1980s drew huge protests and an end to the clubbing of the youngest pups.
		The Canadian Sealers Association says the hunt is essential to limit seal populations as seals and human fishermen compete for dwindling fish stocks.
		While they concede that harp seals are in no danger of extinction, they say the hunt is a dinosaur, giving eastern Canada more of an image problem than an economic boost.
	www.cnn.com /EARTH/9803/27/seal.hunt/index.html (418 words)

	Anai Rhoads : Seal Hunting Back in the News
		AnaiRhoads.org - The International Fund for Animal Welfare IFAW announced Wednesday during a press conference that 2004's hunt for seals may bring in record numbers.
		This year's seal hunt is expecting at least 350,000, which makes it the highest quota in Canada's history.
		One of the results of the commercial seal hunt is "highgrading." This seal was killed solely for its penis, its body was left on the ice to rot.
	www.anairhoads.org /animal/harpseals.shtml (464 words)

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