Corporate Media Finally Turns Attention To Seal Hunt!!! (About time)

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[Not that the corporate media said much, but they put

up many bloody shots of dead seal pics that speak for

themselves as to the heinousness of all this! Click

source below to see the pictures and read the article.

Please forward this email to everybody. Ask them to

boycott all Canadian products. Rick.]

 

 

Sealers, Protesters Clash at Canada Hunt

 

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http://story.news./news?tmpl=story & u=/ap/canada_seal_hunt

 

Fri Apr 1, 3:11 PM ET

 

Add to My World - AP Canada

 

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island - Protesters

alighting from helicopters to try to stop a seal hunt

scuffled Friday with sealers who fired warning shots —

sending the protesters scurrying back to the aircraft.

 

 

Canada's harp seal hunt, the target of protests since

the 1960s, began this week when thousands of sealers

armed with clubs, rifles and spears headed for the ice

floes off eastern Canada for the world's largest such

hunt.

 

Canada says the hunt brings $16.5 million in badly

needed income to its coastal communities, primarily

from pelt sales to Norway, Denmark and China. Animal

activists condemn the hunt as barbaric. The United

Stats bans imports of seal products.

 

Protesters arrived by helicopters Friday, and a sealer

approached swinging a 12 foot stick with a hook. At

one point, a snowmobile carrying two sealers hurtled

toward the activists but swung away at the last

moment.

 

The two groups started shoving each other, when

several shots were fired into the air by a sealer

aboard a boat, and the protesters retreated to their

helicopters. Protesters included members of the

International Fund for Animal Welfare.

 

No one was hurt.

 

The protesters are required to keep at least 10 yards

from the sealers.

 

Michel Therien, a spokesman for Canada's Fisheries and

Oceans Department, said three protesters were arrested

on Thursday for violating the distance regulations.

 

Paul Watson, captain of the protest ship Farley Mowat,

said he saw one sealer attack a member of his crew on

the ice Thursday. The sealer said he was just

defending himself.

 

The seal hunt begins about two weeks after the seal

pups are born and before their fur changes from white

to gray. Animal rights activists say the pups are

clubbed to death and often skinned alive, but sealers

and government officials insist the pups die

instantly, under strict guidelines.

 

Aboriginal and Inuit subsistence and commercial

hunters begin the kill Nov. 15 in Canada's vast

expanse of frozen Northern waters, which reach from

the Yukon Territories near Alaska through the Arctic

Ocean and down into the North Atlantic off Labrador.

 

The spring leg of the commercial hunt starts in the

Gulf of St. Lawrence and moves to the Front, an arc of

the Atlantic Ocean sweeping out 30 to 40 miles from

Newfoundland. Hunters were expected to kill more than

300,000 seals by May 15.

 

 

 

 

 

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