"About 325,000 seal pups were killed during the hunt last year, bringing the local fishermen $14.5 million in supplemental income, which they say their families badly need during the winter offseason."
It may in fact be a slaughter instead of a hunt, but these people need the bucks this provides. If it were my choice, do this and feed my kids or let them go hungry, I'd be there doing it.
If the only way you can feed your children is to slaughter baby mammals by clubbing them to death in front of their still-protective mothers, going ahead and skinning alive the ones who don't quite killed or knocked unconscious by your poorly aimed bashes, and leaving a number of the mothers mortally wounded, to die slowly because they tried to defend their pups from your savagery, then you urgently need to stop having children, and you need to teach the children you have that they must under no circumstances have any children themselves until they're in a position to support them without behaving like complete barbarians. Nature will limit the seal population in a much less savage manner, largely by reducing the number of births, as mothers who've eaten less will produce smaller litters.