Poor ice conditions and low pelt prices are keeping sealers off the water this year, is this just one bad year or another chapter in the demise of the hunt?

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  • Fosch - 14 years ago

    Derek,

    Seals take only what they need to live. Humans on the other hand, take way way more that what we need. We rape the land and the water of the earth without gratitude or respect. And still we have hunger - so we don't hunt and fish for survival, we hunt and fish for profit. Only when we learn to live on this earth with gratitude and respect will the environment and the animals of the earth (those we have not rendered extinct) come back to health.

    So using fish stocks as an excuse to slaughter seals, is entirely without logic! I hope that the seal slaughter is done. I hope that these hunters can find meaningful employment in another industry and I hope that we as humans can someday soon, learn to live in harmony with the environment and nature.

  • merry - 14 years ago

    Interesting logic, Derek, tho' perhaps a bit flawed?

    The estimated number of humans living on planet Earth is just under 7 billion. I suspect the number of seals is far less. Humans pose a far greater danger to over-fishing than do seals, which, when consuming fish, are eating their ONLY source of food. Perhaps we humans could eat less (or no) fish, and fill our plates with any of the hundreds of other options?

    I can hardly wait 'til the commercial seal hunt ends .. forever! :)

  • Becky Allbarf - 14 years ago

    Your question was: "Is this just one bad year or another chapter in the demise of the hunt?" But the responses you offered people to choose from had little to do with the question. Why not just a "yes" or "no" option? Where in your question was "animal rights activists" mentioned? The question had nothing to do with animal rights activists. Every emotionally distrubed, sea- loving, newfie bashing activist is going to click the answer you INTENDED them to click so basically you are catering to the aforementioned emotionally distrubed, sea- loving, newfie bashing activists and not to those who are genuinely concerned about the skyrocketing population of these worm infested disease carrying sea-rats.

  • Eileen - 14 years ago

    Nature will restore the balance if we finally stop interfering. There will always be times when one species flourishes and another's population diminishes, but barring any world catastrophe, they will rebound.

    The end of the hunt is near - thank goodness! The seals will finally stop being needlessly slaughtered.

  • derek - 14 years ago

    The one thing to remember , as humans we take millions of tons of fish from the ocean every year, if the other big predaters ( seals ) are not controlled at the same time well the fish populations will drop and may not recover e.g. the cod #'s off the shores of NFLD. So we ( humans ) have to make choices, if the seal hunt ends - then the fish we all like to eat will come to an end and many seals will starve to death as fish populations dry up...

    every action has a reaction....

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