🚀 go-pugleaf

Kelly Bert Manning wrote ...
> The Right Wing minority government told the Department of Fisheries
> and Oceans to increase the seal cull quota by 50,000 this year, as
> some wort of "message" to European countries banning seal product
> imports. 
> 
> Despite that Tory encouragement the hunt is simply not happening.
> 
> With the mildest winter on record in Canadian weather record books
> there is no sea ice to speak of in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
> 
> The hunts from Prince Edward Island and the Madeleine Isles are
> simply not happening. There is no ice to walk around on, and no 
> pups kill. They are drowned or starving if they manages to wash
> up on shore still breathing.
> 
> At this time of year sea ice usually extends from the western Gulf
> out past Newfoundland.
> 
> Darn, you try and send a message to those pesky Europeans, and 
> climate change shows that science has little or nothing to
> do with the seal cull quotas, and makes a joke of your
> attempt to score a PR point with dead seals.
> 
> At least Greenpeace has stopped their own role in the annual
> slaughter. They used to go out and spray oil paint onto pups,
> supposedly to "save" them. It made good TV footage, but DFO
> biologists who tracked what happened to the oil painted pups
> found they died of hypothermia. 
> 
> It really isn't any different from a sea bird dying of
> hypothermia after getting an oil spot the size of quarter on
> its feathers.
> 
> Greenpeace was simply adding it's own, unauthorized, count of
> dead seal pups to the authorized quota killed by hunters.
> 

Obviously all those excess warm seals have melted the ice floes.

Eric