Seal Hunting

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and can continue on, but the ones who are shot and are hurt usually just slip under the radar and eventually suffer and die. The hunters use hakapiks to kill the injured seals at close range, it is a big wooden club with an ice pick at the end for dragging purposes. They also club immobile injured seals. After the seal is killed, the captors then take their hakapik pick and put it into the seals back to carry it aboard their vessels. It is then the seal is skinned, sometimes while alive. Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans isn't large enough to do anything to aid in the regulation of the commercial hunt.

The apathy of the seal hunters and their treatment of the job connects with the care from the Canadian Government. Without any input or help to aid in the way of the hunters actions, there can be no improvement. John Efford, who is the former Canadian Minister of Natural Resources is quoted as saying: "Mr. Speaker, I would like to see the 6 million seals, or whatever ...

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to go out and fish the northern cod more so then if the foreign fishers were to fish in that specific limit as well. With near extinction of the northern cod population, more than 40,000 Atlantic Canadian commercial fishermen had lost their only source of income because of the collapse of the industry. In turn of the fishing industry collapsing with the cod, the DFO had turned to seal hunting to make up for the loss of income in the cod industry. Their blame was on the seals eating the cod and therefore pushed the blame towards the new way of income. Due to the DFO using the seal as a sort of escape of blame, the seal population then began to decrease rapidly.

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