Govt Stupidity Wipes Out Fish, Blames Starving Seals, Then Targets Seals for Extinction

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The fact that Fur Seals are starving and their numbers are in serious decline, even WITHOUT the massive yearly butchery, is evidence that the govt has obliterated the seals' food supply by overfishing -- not the other way around -- as these lying, braindead Namibian officials would have people believe!http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iaYt1kIILqCgZITVqvURQsBDixjQD99GAH1O2

 

 

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MEN WHO FILMED NAMIBIA SEAL SLAUGHTER CONVICTED

 

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MICHELLE THERIAULT (AP) – Jul 17, 2009

JOHANNESBURG

— Two foreign journalists who were arrested in Namibia while filming the

clubbing of seals were convicted Friday of entering a protected marine area

without a permit.

 

 

British journalist Jim Wickens and his South African cameraman, Bart Smithers,

appeared in a magistrates court in the coastal town of Swakopmund.

 

 

They were given the choice of 12 months in jail or a fine of 10,000 Namibian

dollars each (about $1,200), along with a six-month suspended sentence, said

Namibian police spokesman Angula Amulungu.

 

 

Their employer, the British investigative agency Ecostorm, has agreed to pay

the fine, said spokesman Andrew Wasley.

In a matter the court did not consider, Wasley said the two men allege that the

sealers attacked them.

 

 

The men were in Namibia to produce a documentary on the controversial seal

hunt, which animal activists say is barbaric and outdated. Wasley said that

Wickens and Smithers were filming near Namibia's Cape Cross Colony, on the

isolated northern coast of the country on Thursday morning when sealers

assaulted them.

 

 

"They were chased and attacked with the clubs used to kill the

seals," Wasley said of the journalists.

 

 

Police arrived and arrested the journalists, who were detained for several hours

in the town of Henties Bay before being released on bail. The attackers remain

at large.

 

 

Namibia's seals number about 850,000 and live on a dozen remote, rocky islands

off the coast of the sparsely populated southern African country.

 

 

More than 90,000 seals will be clubbed to death during the annual sealing

season, which started in early July.

 

 

The hunt takes place under clandestine circumstances to avoid the glare of

publicity — and to avoid upsetting tourists.

 

[WARNING: BS Alert!]

The government has said seals consume 900,000 tons of fish each year, more than

a third of the fishing industry's catch, and that the cull is needed to protect

fisheries.

 

 

Animal welfare groups counter that most of the seals killed are nursing pups.

 

 

Wasley said journalists' experience would draw more attention to the Namibian

seal hunt, usually overshadowed by its more publicized Canadian counterpart.

 

 

"A lot of people aren't aware of its existence," he said. "This

will put a spotlight on Namibia."

 

 

 

 

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