You can take direct action by doing:
1. Take part in our most recent Action Alert
2. Write to government expressing your condemnation of the unnecessary and brutal killing of grey seals. Because Hay Island is a provincially-held Protected Wilderness Area, the government of Nova Scotia must give permission for commercial sealing to occur. To write about Hay Island seals in particular, send letters and emails to the Premier of Nova Scotia, with a copy to your local MP and to the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Minister of Environment and Labour and Minister of Natural Resources, expressing your opposition to the killing of grey seals under any pretext - commercial or cull. Follow up your written and/or electronic communcation with a telephone call to remind them that you are are a voter and are willing and able to make this a voting issue. Fishermen are not the only people in this province with voting power.
The Honourable Stephen MacNeil |
The Honourable Keith Colwell |
The Honourable Margaret Miller |
The Honourable Lloyd Hines |
Generally, the commercial grey seal hunt (and issuance of grey seal nuisance licences) fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government. In this case, the appropriate people to write to would be the Canadian Prime Minister and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. Be sure to send a copy to your Member of Legislative Assembly (if in Nova Scotia and your Member of Parliament (if in Canada). Again, express your opposition to the killing of grey seals under any pretext - commercial or cull. Follow up your written and/or electronic communcation with a telephone call to remind them that you are are a voter and are willing and able to make this a voting issue. Fishermen are not the only people in this province with voting power.
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P. |
The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc |
3. Write to local and national papers
So far, this fairly new commercial seal hunt has occurred without much public notice or outcry because it's been kept very low-key by government and seal killers. Let's change this. Write letters to your local newspapers as well as national papers, bringing this to the attention of their readers.
4. Raise Awareness
Talk to people about this issue whenever possible. Educate others. Urge them to take action. If you'd like to volunteer in the effort to end this, please send us an email.
We'll be updating this site shortly with other ways in which you can help to end the killing of grey seals. Please keep checking back.