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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 ...
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A mattress company in Germany had expressed interest in cruelty-free seal products, and about 70 bags of seal fur were collected. [6] In 1998, Sea Shepherd warded sealers from the main seal nursing grounds by bringing celebrities on the ice to take photos with the seals. Celebrities included Farley Mowat, John Paul Dejoria, and Pierce Brosnan.
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]
Gerraty started hearing about the decapitated harbor seals as he was doing research on the coastal coyotes' diet; he said it was well documented that they would scavenge already-dead 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.