"Nobody" <not RemoveThis @home.anymore> wrote in message news:Xns990FC17314251v2rt@204.153.245.131...
> pearl wrote:
> > "Stylish" <nospam RemoveThis @this.email> wrote in message
> > news:Xns990FB75A96EA5chiloe@207.14.116.130...
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> >> I don't get this. I've never seen a seal fur garment in my life.
> >> Where does all the seal fur go? Who uses it?
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> > This is how it looks: http://www.harpseals.org/hunt/pelts.html .
>
> I see you still use a web page that shows the seal pup with white
> fur.
Just a few days younger than the seals killed for those coats.
> You should look at this page and notice the rather LARGE increases in
> exports every year. This is contrary to what you say your efforts
> are doing.
'Sealer Admits Killing Seals for "Fun"
Desmond Adams was quoted today in the Newfoundland media as
saying, "We all go out for the love of it rather than the money, which
isn't there anymore."
Which means, of course, that the Canadian taxpayer is now currently
paying the bill in millions of dollars to provide four full time ice-breakers
to assist a bunch of thugs who sadistically bash in the heads of seal pups
for pleasure.
Some 400 sealers on about 100 small boats remain trapped in heavy ice
off the Eastern coast of Newfoundland in one of the heaviest ice jams in
memory.
Unable to break the boats free, the Canadian Coast Guard has turned
errand boys for the sealers flying in groceries to the stranded boats.
The sealers are complaining of boredom according to the Newfoundland
newspaper, the Western Star.
"The poor men," said Sea Shepherd ship's cook Laura Dakin. "Having
to sit out there without being able to kill any baby seals. Their boredom
makes me very happy knowing that seal pups are not being slaughtered.
Over 60,000 seal pups are available under the quota of 275,000. Over
200,000 have already been clubbed or slaughtered. This does not take
into account the estimated 250,000 pups killed by diminished ice
conditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence last month.
Adams, who kills seals for fun, was also sharply critical of his fellow
sealers who have been laughing off the danger they are in. "Very few will
admit it, but what's happening is extremely dangerous," he said. "They
act like clowns about it; they just shrug it off. And I think they'll get away
with it this time. But if there were sustained very strong winds, which can
happen with very little warning here, then you'd have a major catastrophe.
They'd all go down, including the icebreakers, with all hands lost."
"None of these boats, big or small, is registered for ice and some insurance
companies won't cover you for the seal hunt," continued Adams. "Others,
the ice-damage deductible is so high, no one ever reports damage. We just
fix it ourselves. But these little boats are eggshells; they're that fragile. You
could crush them like that."
The Canadian government has acted very irresponsibly in allowing vessels
that are not ice-strengthened to venture into these conditions.
"There is a double standard," said Captain Paul Watson. "My ship, the
Farley Mowat, is an ice-class ship and I have more experience in
navigating in ice conditions than most of these sealers, but the Coast Guard
did everything they could to prevent us from going into the ice to save seals
- citing their concerns for our "safety".
Adams also said that the hunt continues not for the money but because the
government wants it to continue.
"No one's going to stop hunting if they don't have to. We need someone to
tell us, `No, this is too dangerous. You can't do it.' Newfoundlanders are
good at following orders. They've told us we can't fish and we can't do this
or that. And we don't."
No one's getting rich from the seal hunt, he said. "At least not among the
hunters. The price of pelts is down to about $55 - about half what it used
to be."
Not only that, the ice crisis means the sealers will be delayed in getting back
to their main livelihood - crab fishing and shrimping. "The later you take a
crab, the worse the quality. We're getting hurt."
These comments from a veteran sealer certainly contradict the position of
the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans that the seal hunt is an
economic necessity.
Check out the story at:
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/205683
Captain Paul Watson
Founder and President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (1977-
Co-Founder - The Greenpeace Foundation (1972)
Co-Founder - Greenpeace International (1979)
Director of the Sierra Club USA (2003-2006)
Director - The Farley Mowat Institute
Director -
www.harpseals.org
www.Seashepherd.org
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