Return To Canada’s Killing Fields: HALF A MILLION Seals To Be Skinned Alive In Annual Cull

30 March 2015

 - The Canadian government has come under fire for allowing the slaughter of nearly 470,000 seals as part of the biggest marine animal hunt on the planet.

Canada’s annual ‘commercial seal hunt’, which mainly takes place during March and April, sees thousands of young seals clubbed to death for their furs.

The annual quota for the seal hunt has gone up in recent years, despite the market for seal pelts collapsing following an near world-wide ban on the furs.

Last month, Canada’s Fisheries Minister Gail Shea set the seal hunt quota to 400,000 harp seals, 60,000 grey seals and 8,200 hooded seals  – a total of more than 468,000 animals.