Seven people face charges on seal hunt protest

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060928/sealhunt_charges_060928/20060928?hub=Canada

Seven people face charges on seal hunt protest

Updated Thu. Sep. 28 2006 5:32 PM ET

Canadian Press

FREDERICTON -- Charges have been laid against seven people who were involved in protesting and observing Canada's commercial seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence last winter.

An official with the federal Fisheries Department said Thursday the individuals are being charged with violating the terms of their observer licences by coming too close to hunters.


Protesters with the Humane Society of the United States monitor the seal hunt.


Fisheries spokesman Roger Simon of the Iles de la Madeleine said he cannot name the people charged because they have yet to be notified.

"They're charged under the fisheries general regulations for non-compliance with licence conditions,'' Simon said, adding those conditions dictate observers are not to come within 10 metres of a sealer engaged in hunting.

FULL stroy at link above.

[LeftyMom]

1. The EU pelt ban discussed in the link would be the end of the seal hunt or

nearly so. The pelts may be processed outside the EU, but the fashion houses turn them into expensive garments. With the main demand gone, there'd be little economic incentive to continue the hunt, which is already a money loser carried on mainly for nationalistic reasons.

[nam78_two]

2. God I hope that happens

Fashion ugh :puke:

[flvegan]

3. I wonder what Discovery is in the Canadian courts.

Hope it's nothing like what the US has, cuz if it is...

[and-justice-for-all]

4. The Seal Slaughter is barbaric and cruel..it needs to stop!