Harp Seal slaughters starting

[Mari333]

By THE CANADIAN PRESS
Tue. Feb 17 - 6:54 PM

Sealers have killed 200 grey seals on a tiny island off Cape Breton, a week after their buyer unexpectedly backed out of taking any pelts, putting the controversial hunt in limbo.

A group of hunters took to Hay Island on Monday for the first time since the spit of land officially opened for a commercial hunt two weeks ago.

Gus van Helvoort, a spokesman for the federal Fisheries Department, said Tuesday the sealers notified federal officials they had found another buyer in Newfoundland for about 200 seals.









http://harpseals.org/resources/news_and_press/2009/sealhunt09.html

do whatever you can to end the slaughter. boycott, send emails.
http://harpseals.org/help/letters_and_emails/index.html

[flvegan]

1. And The Farley Mowat is still under detention.

Likely won't be released in time for the big hunts starting in March either.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Is it ever going to be released or will the SSCS just let it go?

[flvegan]

7. SSCS has stated that they plan to decommission (?) it and make it

a floating office or something, possibly in the Galapagos. IIRC, Watson has said that the ship is old and needs far too many upgrades and repairs since the Canadian govt ripped it apart when they seized it, and it would be cheaper and more opportunistic to buy a new boat. I think that since they plan to buy a fastboat to help with the whale hunt, they're combining the opportunities to justify it.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

8. I saw that they got a serious grant recently

Also recall a statement that they may be looking to replace the Steve Irwin with something more suited for the artic

[flvegan]

9. Yep, BIG grant.

$750k, I believe. They're looking to add a boat to the arctic campaign. The Steve Irwin isn't going anywhere.

They tried to get a second boat for it this past year, but I don't think the funds were there.

[Double T]

2. The Harp Seal hunters need to be repeatedly clubbed in their head.

No more barbaric bastards. Problem solved.

[Gabi Hayes]

4. speaking of Mowat

http://www.counterpunch.org/watson11072008.html

Farley Mowat's Last Book? Maybe Not
By PAUL WATSON

Farley Mowat has written his last book. Well maybe. At 87, he says that writing is like breathing and Farley is very much still breathing so I'm not so sure that Otherwise will be his last book.

He does insist it will be the last book he goes on a promotion tour with. And he continues to write every day, tapping out the words on an old 1910 Underwood. (Where he finds those ribbons is a mystery.)

Farley Mowat is considered the greatest living Canadian writer today and his 40 books have made him a legend and a national literary treasure. His book Sea of Slaughter illustrates the 500 years of exploitation that decimated life in the oceans of the North Atlantic. It was such a damning expose that Farley was prohibited from doing a book tour in the United States which led to his writing the book My Discovery of America.

"Otherwise" deals with the years of Farley's life between 1937 and 1948. The book, based largely on his meticulously detailed journals is part of an "autobiographical experiment" to retrace those formative years that helped determine the path his life would take.

[Mari333]

5. thanks for that link..wonderful...nt

[Gabi Hayes]

6. thank you for the thread...though it's very sad.

remember the movie Never Cry Wolf? it was just on TV

also, you know about Paul Watson's involvement in the seal hunt, yes?

I met him when he was in DC in the 80s. he told me about it.....very hard to listen to.