Canada's Annual Seal Slaughter Set for Late March

Join IDA's Protest in San Francisco and Boycott Canadian Seafood

In late March this year, the single largest mass slaughter of mammals anywhere in the world will once again take place off the East Coast of Canada. Endorsed by the Canadian Government, fishermen will commence the brutal slaughter of over 300,000 harp seals. Last year, more than 98.5% of the seals killed were newborn pups less than two months old.

Sealing is an off-season activity conducted by commercial fishermen from Canada's East Coast. They beat or shoot the defenseless seal pups with rifles, clubs and hakapiks - long wooden clubs with sharp hooked spikes at one end. It really isn't much of a "hunt" because the seals are so young they are barely able to even move.

On average, fishermen make about one-twentieth of their annual incomes from sealing (the rest comes from working in commercial fisheries). Canada exports over three billion dollars worth of seafood a year to the U.S. alone, but only makes a few million from the seal slaughter.

IDA joins animal protection groups around the world in calling for people everywhere to boycott Canadian seafood products until Canada stops their annual massacre for good.

Source: Join IDA's Protest in San Francisco and Boycott Canadian Seafood

Link: Canada Sets Seal Hunt, Says Activists Mislead
Link: Canadian Seal Hunt Goes Ahead Despite Calls for Caution
Link: T-Shirts - Seals


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