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Once launched in 2005, the HSUS's campaign to end the hunting of seals in Canada secured pledges from 300 restaurants and companies, plus 120,000 individuals, to boycott Canadian seafood. [69] By 2014, the campaign claimed more than 6,500 restaurants, grocery stores and seafood supply companies were participants the Protect Seals campaign. [70]
HSUS Genesis Award "Stopping the Seal Hunt" 2007. Emmy Nominee Historic/Cultural Reporting "Meet the Masai"; Public Affairs "Focus on South Florida" 2006. Telly Award Winner Reporting "Stopping the Seal Hunt" 2007. Chuck Stone Award of Excellence Reporting "A Sanctuary From Slavery"Problem Of Child Slavery 2007. Emmy Winner Reporting "Children ...
Canada's 2008 annual commercial seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and around Newfoundland, Quebec and Nova Scotia began on March 28. The hunting season lasts from mid-November to mid-May, but the hunt mainly occurs in March and April. [1] Canada's seal hunt is the world's largest hunt for marine mammals. [2]
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in nine countries: Canada, Denmark (in self-governing Greenland only), Russia, the United States (above the Arctic Circle in Alaska), Namibia, Estonia, Norway, Finland and Sweden. Most of the world's seal hunting takes place in Canada ...
To understand the hunting patterns, researchers outfitted the seas with a tech tool, antenna-like loggers that collected 8,913 days of data from 59 adult seals.
These killer whales beached themselves while hunting for seals on a sandbar south of Prince Rupert. Captain Doug Davis and Debbie Davis went out to monitor the whales until the tide rose high ...
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) was founded in 1969, in initial efforts to stop the commercial hunt for seal pups on the east coast of Canada. With offices in 15 countries, and projects in more than 40, [ 4 ] IFAW is one of the largest animal welfare organisations in the world.
In March 2006, McCartney and Mills travelled to Canada to bring attention to the country's annual seal hunt. [139] Sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States , they complained that the hunt was inhumane, and called on the Canadian government to put an end to it. [ 140 ]