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Shocking images of seal hunting

A familiar scene that many of us know about but which few have seen is ongoing Eastern Canada as sealers and seal hunt opponents get ready for another episode of tension and sufference. 100 hunters embarked on 16 boats heading toward a large herd of seals in the Cabot Strait between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Meanwhile, animal activists observed and documented the hunt in their helicopters. According to the Fisheries Department, if weather is good, about 92,000 seals can be taken from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The big hunt will begin this month, in Newfoundland and Labrador, where around 183,000 animals will be killed.

“The hunt has officially opened but it’s a very slow start,” said Fisheries spokesman Phil Jenkins. “There is very heavy ice. The vessels from Iles de la Madeleine are slowly trying to make their way to a herd in the Cabot Strait area.”

“It’s very frustrating,” Rebecca Aldworth of the Humane Society said. “The Canadian government is telling the world there is a new humane way of killing seals in Canada. But at this point there is no video evidence as to how they are actually conducting themselves out there.” About 60 people have requested observer permits, which is slightly higher than last year’s number of 42.

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The following images are brutal and not for the weak hearted. Nonetheless, they are real and happening as we speak.

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Photo source: © Scanpix, news source: CTV.ca

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27 comments for “Shocking images of seal hunting”

  1. I am absolutely ashamed of our CDN Government that is continuing to allow this bloodbath of these defenseless animals!! Steven Harper should be on one of these hunt boats himself, to see the inhunmane slaughter and vicious cruelty that is instilled on the seals! Sign all the peitions you can folks and promote the ban of CDN seafood..we MUST end this violence!

    Posted by Violet | April 2, 2008, 8:58 pm
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    Posted by BANATEANU | April 3, 2008, 7:18 am
  3. Response to Violet: How do you start a petition against Canadian sea food? I don’t even know anyone who eats seal! I’ll sign one if it comes around, but I don’t think the market’s based in the U.S. Or if it is, it’s for pelts and other products, not food. Either way, I fully agree with you, but the U.S. can’t police other countries if the market isn’t here, and it would take a whole lot of people signing petitions if the market is here.

    Posted by Mel | April 7, 2008, 4:30 pm
  4. HAHA Four of these losers have already died this year. KARMA will find you! HAHAHAHAHA Big men with small minds.

    Posted by Scott M | April 12, 2008, 4:01 pm
  5. Anyone notice the hakapik has a spike on one end and a blunt hammer on the other?

    Which end is the sealer using to stun the seal?
    The the spiked end goes into the skull causing almost immediate death.

    Also note that hardly anyone uses that anymore since it’s easier to use a rifle.

    Note the seal is not the cute little fluffy white one?
    It’s an adult.

    What’s shocking to me are the comments, from supposed enlightened environmentalists, that applaud or call for the deaths of humans involved in the hunt.

    Their families should live in abject poverty?
    Perhaps they should freeze to death because they can’t afford to pay their bills?
    Do you think the poor bastards that participate in the hunt because it’s fun, or because it helps to pay the bills - how many jobs are available in the Atlantic Provinces during the winter?

    What are you doing to help generate jobs & income in these regions?

    Critique a situation when you know more about it.
    Leave the knee-jerk reactions to the under-educated here.
    Yup, real humane.

    Posted by Onion | April 22, 2008, 9:23 pm
  6. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_hunting#Cruelty_to_animals

    Some actual researched information & publicly available information.

    Read before you decide to donate to these groups.
    They want your money more than they want to heal the world.

    You’d be better off not driving your car so much than giving these folks your cash.

    Posted by Onion | April 22, 2008, 9:25 pm
  7. Onion

    There are some issues with your statements. First off, if there are no jobs, why live there? If suddenly I could not provide for my family any longer and bashing in human heads was a sole source of revenue, would it justify it any more? No. Money does not make an immoral act morally correct.

    Second, these people who died made a choice. They chose to float around the ice floes with guns and sharp objects in winter, up North. If they die doing that, its still sad, but they CHOSE to do that. These seals have no choice and are barbarically killed anyway.

    It is sad that these people are blinded to the horrible suffering they inflict on helpless beings. I personally would not want one of these guys watching my kid or playing with my dog. If someone is able to senselessly cause this pain and death, who knows how stable they are? Plus, to use money as a means of justification? CRAZY!

    Bottom line - I think its horrible the loss of life (both human and non human). However, as times dictate, economies change based on what a society deems acceptable. I bet slave trading was a lucrative business. Yet, it does not happen any more. People woke up.

    I really hope these sealers and their families find a more humane way to live their lives.

    Scott

    Posted by Scott | April 23, 2008, 6:49 pm
  8. I don’t know enough about seal hunting to say it’s purpose is a bad one, but in terms of MORALITY, I personally would not want to know someone who does this or anything related to meat production (slaughterhouse work).

    Any human who can kill animals ‘for a living’ just isn’t ‘normal’ by the definition I hold. I know it’s total hippocracy since I eat meat, but that’s another story.

    Posted by Drew | May 7, 2008, 12:27 am
  9. i cannot believe what people do to the poor seals. ya…so what if it is their living…they can find another one!!! people should not support seal hunting and i am very ashamed of who ever does this. seals are very intelligent creatures obviously smarter than the people who kill them for blood.

    Posted by adie | July 28, 2008, 2:45 pm
  10. Oh my gosh this is the saddest thing I’ve ever seen and those people are heartless. These animals are defenseless it’s just so sad we have to help these animals!

    Posted by willy | July 30, 2008, 4:16 pm
  11. What I meant was:

    These animals are defenseless! it’s just so sad! We have to help these animals!

    Posted by willy | July 30, 2008, 4:19 pm
  12. Mr.Orion probably has not money to pay bils.:) Maybe he has only a short prosperity in his life. Help him!

    Posted by GV | August 16, 2008, 9:42 pm
  13. this is so cruel, would you like to be beaten to death?

    Posted by chels | August 26, 2008, 8:42 am
  14. this is so mean i hate how people can just sit here and laugh about it and dont care how would you feel if that was you being beat in the head and killed it would not feel to good now would it!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted by christina | September 13, 2008, 9:39 pm
  15. seal hunting should be stopped as soon as possible! it is so sad that the poor seals have to die!we should make them watch someone kill there friends and family an then kill them! I know it is a sin to hate someone, but I hate seal hunters.

    Posted by caroline | November 5, 2008, 3:38 pm
  16. Why wud any one do this i cryed when i read a story about how can we help them

    Posted by Codee | November 7, 2008, 11:37 pm
  17. These people are murdurers.

    Posted by GIna | December 14, 2008, 10:12 am
  18. i personallly beleave that these men are working to make money and to be honest it looks like a pretty easy way to do so, so in my opinion keep on killin

    Posted by brandon bergstrom | December 28, 2008, 7:25 pm
  19. these guys are just tryin to make money for there family’s let them be

    Posted by brandon bergstrom | December 28, 2008, 7:26 pm
  20. these guys just want to make money ,its a job

    Posted by brandon bergstrom | December 28, 2008, 7:27 pm
  21. these people who are doing this are cruel and horrible. if these seals have done nothing wrong to us, then why should we do wrong to them. they caint protect themselfs.

    Posted by lilz | February 24, 2009, 11:24 am
  22. i’m apathestic toward the fishermen and their need to protect their livelihoods, but in killing the seals, it effects a WAY bigger picture!! with the # of seals decreasing, the amount of plankton they create in the ocean decreases - this is FOOD for the fish.. the plankton also create oxygen in the ocean..!
    if the fishermen keep this up they won’t have any fish to be fishing which isn’t good for anyone - especially when the ocean is left in a state worse than the one she’s in already…
    the melting of ice caps is killing off many many seals, naturally - they’re here for a reason, and i think it’s naiive for people to consider themselves clever, and “important” enough to decide what animals we want around and which we don’t.
    killing seals may provide families with money… but listen to that statement - in the grand scheme of life on this planet that doesn’t mean a whole lot of anything when the ocean starts coming up over us

    Posted by wildflower | February 27, 2009, 7:26 am
  23. i hate seal hunting the people how do it are mean and gay

    Posted by hamza | March 3, 2009, 3:22 pm
  24. Really, get over it. There are more horrible things going on in the world.

    Posted by Emma Gee | April 14, 2009, 5:53 pm
  25. Is that a joke? I don’t believe animals have the right to choose what they do, their whole purpose is to live, and then bastards like these go and hunt for them.

    I couldn’t care less if they died a painful death, they should have thought about it before killing animals in such horrific ways. If their families are supporting them, then I don’t give a crap about how they feel when they die.

    Humans are by far the worst race that ever walked this planet, seeing these make me sick, what makes me even more sick is people who tell other people to get over it. People who have no moral values at all.

    Posted by joe | April 20, 2009, 7:00 pm
  26. I think seal hunting should be banned.

    They are very cute creatures and what have they done to hurt us?

    The heartless people who hunt seals should be shot. These images made me cry.

    Posted by Kim | May 13, 2009, 7:27 pm
  27. this is really cool i wanna see some blood that make me happy and human rulzz human owns this planet and we dont destroye it we live happy on this world

    Posted by johan | June 18, 2009, 5:04 am

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