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Commentary by Captain Paul Watson
“I would like to see the six million seals, or whatever number is out there, killed and sold, or destroyed or burned. I do not care what happens to them. If there was a market for more seals, the commercial sealers would be hunting and killing seals. The ‘personal use’ sealers…cannot sell them because the markets are not there. What they want is the right to go out and kill the seals….and the more they kill, the better I will love it.”
Mr. John Efford, former Canadian Federal Minister for Natural Resources and the former Minister of Fisheries for the province of Newfoundland.
File photo: Paul Watson with baby Harp SealI have been fighting the Canadian seal hunt since 1974. It’s been a long hard road after nearly four decades. During that time I have taken ships into the ice six times, in 1979, 1981, 1983, 1998, 2005 and 2008. I’ve led three helicopter campaigns in 1976, 1977 and 1995. During this time we chased sealing vessels out of the ice, blockaded sealing ships in harbor, walked for miles over treacherous ice conditions, confronting Canadian fisheries officers and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, debated Senators, Members of Parliament, Newfoundland Premiers, Fisheries Ministers and Prime Ministers. We’ve taken celebrities Brigitte Bardot, Richard Dean Anderson and Martin Sheen to the ice floes and we worked to have seal products banned worldwide. We’ve been arrested, beaten by police and by sealers, lost a ship, and we’ve been vilified across Canada as eco-terrorists, extremists and traitors.
We even devised a cruelty free, non-lethal sealing alternative of brushing off molting fur from the white coats because it has the same properties as eider down. The government rejected our alternative. The government wanted the seals to die.
But in the end we won!"
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The Canadian Seal Hunt is Dead! Long Live the Seals!
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January 29, 2012, http://www.seashepherd.org/commentary-and-editorials/2012/01/29/the-canadian-seal-hunt-is-dead-long-live-the-seals-512,
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