The Canadians are terrible conservationists.
They wiped out the bear and moose population on Canada --the moose crossed back into Quebec from Maine and they started to rebound.
The Canadians say that they kill seal pups because they eat the fish...nonsense. Baby seals do not eat fish and second, it's the dumb Canadian fishermen that overfished the seas. By the early 90s the entire cod population had been depleted...by humans not seal pups. They are doing the same in British Columbia today...overfishing.
Bottom line: killing baby seals serves no useful purpose except to keep some unemployed Canucks doing something and some bureacrazis employed.
Get your facts straight....
1. Baby Seal grow up into big blubbery thingies. They get that way by EATING FISH - LOTS OF FISH!!!!!!
2. Canadian Fishermen are prevented from overfishing by the Gov't.
OTOH, Fishermen from other countries (including the good ol' US of A)
are in our backyard fishing unrestricted and depleting our fish stocks.
Canadians value every living thingie (seal, fish whatever) equally. We
can save several hundred fish for every seal we kill. Therefore
do the math and you can see that our seal hunt
is akin to compassionate conservativism in the truest sense.
Could you document that ? I once heard the bears came back over on the ice in January one year when the temperature got below freezing but I never heard that about the moose before .
Excuse Me. We are terrible conservationists? I Beg your pardon but it seems to me because of the slaughter of wolves by Americans, that you have had to import wolves from Canada just so you have a few left. I don't recall Canada having to import any Harp Seals from the US because we killed them all.
We have a couple of old has been celebrities, who want face time, come up here and Demand, none the less, that we stop the seal hunt. KMA bubs.
I don't like the seal hunt either. But be damned if I will give in to a couple of old has beens, who are not even Canadian citizens, come here and Demand, no less, that we stop the seal hunt. They can kiss my behind. I'm sure all of you Americans love it when foreigners come in and tell you how to run your country. You can do this, but you Can't do that.
Harp Seals are no where near extinction. Why are they not expending their energy in China for the Panda, and Africa for the Gorilla and Rhino. And the tigers are soooo endangered. Why are they whining about a species who is absolutely thriving? You tell me..... Face Time. I Say FO.
"They wiped out the bear and moose population on Canada --the moose crossed back into Quebec from Maine and they started to rebound."
I'd like to see a reference for that claim. And eastern Canada is lousy with black bear. The Grizzlies are endangered, however, mostly due to habitat destruction.