20,000 Seals Killed in Canada as Hunt Begins
Sealers have begun their annual hunt on the ice floes off eastern Canada hoping to kill more seals than in any season since the early 1980s.
Over the past month, sealers in the Atlantic coast province of Newfoundland have killed 20,000 seals in the hunt, which has caused storms of international protests.
If ice conditions remain favorable, they may cull their limit of 250,000, the Canadian Sealers Assn. said. Environmentalists, however, are hoping the sealers will again fall short of their goal.
Favorable winds have kept the southbound pack ice far enough from shore to give fishing boats access to seal colonies living on the floes.
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