[QwertyKPH]

This is great! The activist got arrested for "violating seal protection regulations by approaching within half a nautical mile of a hunt.

Whilst we may not agree with the methods of seal hunting, it is a traditional and legal activity for indigenous people of Canada.

"Activists" should stay away.

[beltfed308]

Agreed! If I was deer hunting and a group was doing that I would be greatly aggravated.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Arrest is the best thing that could have happened. Imagine if the hunters had scuttled their boat and left them stranded on the ice.

Thats a danged long walk.

[SmithL]

Ar, Ar, Ar

OK, that was my seal of approval.

[Fast1]

Should of clubbed them also!

[Lokibob]

I needs to be pointed out that it is more of a cull of the herd than a hunt.

Without the cull, the fishing would be endangered, the seals would be overwhelming, and the economy would be devistated.

Seals are NOT an endangered species, the only thing going for them is that they are so darn cute, with the big eyes and the silver coat.

I remember a fishing trip off the coast of Mexico, after hours of fishing I finally tied into a yellow fin tuna, only to have a seal take the fish, line and all and run with it. If I could have seen that seal, I would have clubbed it myself.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Whack, whack, "squawk, squawk," is that a seal, no, a Kiwi, whack, mox nix, whack.

[NeoCaveman]

Where they clubbed? :)

[dalereed]

I hope those sealers beat the crap out of them!

[TheOtherOne]

Fri Apr 1,12:43 PM ET
A hunter uses a hakapic to kill a harp seal on an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on April 1, 2005. The Canadian east coast seal hunt is in it's first week. REUTERS/Paul Darrow
Fri Apr 1,12:21 PM ET
A seal hunter (right) pushes a member of the International Fund for Animal Welfare on an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Friday April 1, 2005. (AP PHOTO/CP, Jonathan Hayward)
Fri Apr 1,12:02 PM ET
A seal hunter (right) pushes a member of the International Fund for Animal Welfare on an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Friday April 1, 2005. (AP PHOTO/CP, Jonathan Hayward)
Fri Apr 1,11:57 AM ET
An angry sealer swings his hakapic as he approaches a group of Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) observer during the Canadian seal hunt on the ice flows in the Gulf of St Lawrence, April 1, 2005. REUTERS/Paul Darrow
Fri Apr 1,11:15 AM ET
An angry sealer holds up a dragging hook while confronting an Internationl Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) observer during the Canadian seal hunt on the ice flows in the Gulf of St Lawrence on April 1, 2005. REUTERS/Paul Darrow

[IronJack]

"The moment they saw us they threatened us with their hak-a-piks, they were verbally abusive, and their fists were flying,"

This is about the same reception the anarchists got in London at the Petro Exchange a month or so ago. Bunch of the unwashed tried to disrupt trading on the floor, and were met by a phalanx of angry brokers, guards, and passersby who bootstomped them out onto the street.

Amazingly, they seemed surprised that their idiocy had been resisted.