The National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration is currently examining Canadian fishery practices to ensure protections in place are comparable to those in the U.S., as required under the Marine Mammal Protection Act."In terms of market acceptance, some importers and domestic buyers do not want to be linked with companies and or countries associated with the sealing industry, so there must be extreme caution by the government.
"How real can the threat be of sanctions against our seafood when other NAFO countries are hunting whales and they're not being sanctioned?""One important distinction would be the intent to protect marine mammals while you are harvesting other fish and seafood," Lansbergen responded.
What about the the impact of greedy humans on fish stocks?
Polar bears eat seals ? Right ! They also eat Beluga and Narwhal ? I think ? Six billion for fishing stocks ! Which they harvest for free pluck em out of the sea !!!! Who’s being greedy 👀🤷♀️👀😳👀🙄
Up the number allowed to cull by hunters.
Over-fishing is crime! Leave nature be nature! 🤬
I'm sure it's the seals and not over fishing or pollution in the oceans by humans that's harmful to the fish 🙄
The seals need a cull! The seal population is out of control.
well , it's sure taking long enough to get through their skulls that seals eat the guts of cod , many a day , there is no need for a study , it's time for a cull .
Pretty simple more predators = less fish it’s really not that complicated.
How about Human consumption
Stopped the seal hunt, seals ate all the cod, fishermen couldn’t fish for cod cause all the seals ate the cod. Now get back to hunting seals and lets get some cod.
Why don’t you cull them all! Bonnie is a first class culler
Already?
Curious this news report follows Poilievre's recent video about seal hunting.
If u kill all the seals will it change the weather?.
If only people knew how many are out in the ocean its incredible
Rather than looking at humans unnecessarily eating animals, we blame seals whose natural diet to survive is fishes. Dear humans, you all stop eating animals and allow the seals of the world to eat the diet they need to. Instead what will happen? A mass killing of seals FFS.
The clubbing of seals is barbaric. Leave this species alone. The oceans can maintain and balance themselves.
The mismanagement of the fishery is killing the fish stocks. What in hell do you think seals are supposed to eat, Big Macs?
Of course they are. Seals eat fish leave them be
Yes, I'm sure it's the seals' fault.
The seafood industry does more damage to fish stocks than seals ever could.
We came full circle on plastic bags… now we have gone full circle on clubbing baby seals?
If the Canadian Government doesn’t leave nature alone we are doomed. Nobody has the right!!! Nobody!!!!!!
When a newfie tells you, let’s go, clubbing, you better think twice that it doesn’t involve going to a nightclub
All the food on this planet isn't meant only for humans.
We act like we are the only life form on this planet entitled to survive . Some want to kill off seals because they believe they have a right to what seals also need to survive Its not as if there arent plenty of other food sources
We were warned about this how many years ago? The great Danny Williams had a rather one sided debate with Paul McCartney and his demon ex on live tv.
It’s only taken them 75 years. They could have asked any group of fisherman and they wouldn’t need a committee. Happened about the same time the do -gooders stopped the seal hunt . right?
This is what you call a gatekeeper another useless committee
What a waste of time. Let the seals eat the fish! We don’t have to eat everything on the planet!
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Most of the rivers around Placentia Bay have seals around them, eating up those beautiful sea trout and smelts and anything else that swims or crawls, and their still looking to study the seals and their diet fish, fish,and more fish 🐟🐟🐟🦐🦐🦞🦞🦀🦀
Don’t worry the great whites are enjoying the seal feast.
That seal knows..
no secret, they are devastating the fishery
You already have a backlash.