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Meat is sold in the Asian pet food market; in 2004, only Taiwan and South Korea purchased seal meat from Canada. [59] Seal blubber is used to make seal oil, marketed as a fish oil supplement. In 2001, 2% of Canada's raw seal oil was processed and sold in Canadian health stores. [60] There has been virtually no market for seal organs since 1998 ...
Canada's seal hunt is the world's largest hunt for marine mammals. [2] Some animal rights groups were given observer permits and monitored the hunt. They said it was cruel and that it ravaged the seal population. Sealers said it was sustainable, humane, and well-managed. [3] The pelts and oil were sold to buyers in Norway, Russia, and China. [2]
One of those babies is Biscuits the seal, a temporary resident at Vancouver Marine Mammal Rescue in Canada. This precious seal pup is already on the road to recovery (and being released back into ...
Seal Harbour is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Guysborough County. Located on the east side of Isaac's Harbour , it was named for the abundance of seals once found there.
So far this winter, a total of 3,796 seal pups have been born while 1,169 adults have been spotted. The number is almost double the count in 2019/2020 when the total pup count was 2,069.
“We know, 100%, that coyotes are responsible for killing a number of seals in a handful of sites," Gerraty said. “It’s obviously gruesome, but at the same time … coyotes and harbor seals ...
The virus has been detected in seals on the east and west coasts of the U.S., leading to deaths of more than 300 seals in New England and a handful more in Puget Sound in Washington. The situation is even more dire in South America, where more than 20,000 sea lions have died in Chile and Peru and thousands of elephant seals have died in Argentina.
The seal populations that are hunted for commercial purposes – an estimated 15 million animals – are generally not endangered. Some 900,000 seals are hunted each year around the globe, with the commercial hunt in Canada, Greenland and Namibia accounting for some 60% of the seals killed each year.