Des BLANCHONS abattus à Henry Island (Canada)

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Cape Breton sealers harvest product on Henry, Saddle islands

Published on March 9, 2011
Chris Hayes SYDNEY — A group of Cape Breton sealers harvested 115 grey seals last month on Henry Island and Saddle Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.


The sealers were joined on Henry Island by anti-hunt activists in the Humane Society International/Canada but were not under the media spotlight of an earlier hunt on Hay Island, where newspaper, radio and television journalists also went along.

The federal Fisheries and Oceans Department says a total of 105 seals were harvested on Henry Island on Feb. 25 and 10 were taken on Saddle Island on Feb. 28.

Henry Island is off the southwest coast of Cape Breton while Saddle Island is north of Malagash Point off the coast of Cumberland County, N.S.

Robert Courtney, president of the North of Smokey Fishermen’s Association, said the hunts were less about making money and more about furthering a marketing campaign. The buyer, Northeast Coast Sealers Cooperative of Newfoundland, is out to find buyers for grey seal meat and other products mostly in Asian markets.

“It’s all about marketing,” he said Wednesday.

He said sealers may also continue to hunt adult grey seals this year.

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http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/Local/2011-03-09/article-2317552/Cape-Breton-sealers-harvest-product-on-Henry-Saddle-islands/1

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Commentaires de Bridget Curran

Bridget Curran - March 10, 2011 at 07:52:48 Great - more defenceless baby seals beaten to death for fabric swatches. And don't forget the countless nursing whitecoats and their mothers on Henry Island William Murphy of Port Hood bludgeoned and shot to death under special license for an experiment DFO was conducting. That happened while adult females were giving birth to and nursing their young. I was told he was on Henry Island killing seals and a few calls to DFO confirmed it. As the only seals on the island at that time were females and their nursing whitecoats, a DFO Scientist concurred that's what he must be killing. So much for "we don't kill whitecoats." William Murphy did, and he got paid handsomely for it by Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Meanwhile, the killing reported in this article happened on February 24th, the day of the Hay Island slaughter. While everyone was on Hay Island, Willy Murphy went over to Henry Island and beat to death 80 defenceless seal pups. Was DFO monitoring that killing, I wonder? On the 25th, the boys, after a night of celebrating the slaughter of the day before, went over to retrieve the carcasses. More of our tax dollars at work. The buyer - Northeast Coast Sealers Coop - received a $50,000 grant from the federal government for this "marketing" of the slaughtered seals. Yet more of our tax dollars at work. Alas, boys, you can throw all the money you want at it and try to entice processors to Cape Breton, but you'd be better off facing facts, putting away your clubs and leaving the seals alone, since there's no future in it.

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Meanwhile, Chris, why don't you tell it like it is instead of sanitizing it - the pups are not 'harvested' or 'taken' - they're beaten and shot. Simple as that. Nobody wants you to use the words 'slaughtered' or 'massacred', but it would be nice if you could be factual and say 'beaten' and 'shot.' I have yet to see anyone harvest a crop of wheat with a club or a rifle or 'take' anything by beating it to death.

http://www.capebretonpost.com/News/Local/2011-03-09/article-2317552/Cape-Breton-sealers-harvest-product-on-Henry-Saddle-islands/1

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Des BLANCHONS abattus à Henry Island (Canada)
et probablement aussi aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine


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