Doomed to die: This seal pup will drown if it does not find solid ice soon in the southern region. The northern areas are frozen solid by the continuous presence of the Arctic Vortex. We don't know how the seals are in those regions by lack of reports. The people on boats really should be rescued. When the northern sea ice starts to break up many of those ships will sink with the damage they sustained. This is not a 'fit' way to make a living anymore from an environmental perspective or a human rights perspective. The Canadian government needs to remove the fisherman from their boats. It's not at all a good circumstance for them.
By CHARMAINE NORONHA, Associated Press Writer Fri Apr 20, 6:08 PM ET
TORONTO - Commercial seal hunters off the eastern coast of Canada faced food and fuel shortages Friday as their vessels remained stuck in dense ice.
The boats were trapped when strong northeast winds generated by a powerful low-pressure system pushed ice toward the coast of northeastern Newfoundland and southern Labrador earlier this week.
"Conditions are terrible up there with the ice and that," said Ward George, a search-and-rescue coordinator in St. John‘s, Newfoundland. "So we‘re just waiting for the wind to change, to ease off on the pressure, and we‘ll do our work."
The Newfoundland hunt is third and largest phase of Canada‘s annual seal harvest, an event that has drawn widespread criticism around the world, including from celebrities such as Paul McCartney and French actress Brigitte Bardot.
TORONTO - Commercial seal hunters off the eastern coast of Canada faced food and fuel shortages Friday as their vessels remained stuck in dense ice.
The boats were trapped when strong northeast winds generated by a powerful low-pressure system pushed ice toward the coast of northeastern Newfoundland and southern Labrador earlier this week.
"Conditions are terrible up there with the ice and that," said Ward George, a search-and-rescue coordinator in St. John‘s, Newfoundland. "So we‘re just waiting for the wind to change, to ease off on the pressure, and we‘ll do our work."
The Newfoundland hunt is third and largest phase of Canada‘s annual seal harvest, an event that has drawn widespread criticism around the world, including from celebrities such as Paul McCartney and French actress Brigitte Bardot.
There is no 'humaneness' here. Earth and Human Induced Global Warming has preempted all the arguments Pro and Con. There is no more safe hunting of seals, we don't even know what the populations are now. People should not be allowed to take this level of risk for a living. This is an outrage from all perspectives.
