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Welfare
Aspects of the Canadian Seal Hunt
Published 31 August 2007 by Dr. Andy Butterworth, Dr Pierre Gallego,
Professor Neville Gregory, Professor Stephen Harris and Dr Carl Soulsbury
present data from three sources to examine the welfare aspects of
the commercial Canadian seal hunt as it currently operates. The report
concludes that animals are killed in an inherently inhumane manner,
there is a marked lack of willingness, or inability, to improve welfare
issues associated with the commercial seal hunt, and the Canadian
Department of Fisheries and Oceans fails to monitor the hunt effectively
and/or enforce the Marine Mammal Regulations.
Added: 11 May 2008 |
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Inherently
Inhumane: A half century of evidence proves Canada's commercial seal
hunt cannot be made acceptably humane
Dr. Mary Richardson, DVM
Submission to the European Food Safety Authority Animal Health and
Animal Welfare Panel's ad-hoc Working Group on the Humane Aspects
of Commercial Seal Hunting.
Added: 11 May 2008 |
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Animal
Welfare aspects of the killing and skinning of seals - Scientific
Opinion of the Panel on Animal Health and Welfare
Added: 11 May 2008 |
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Variation
in Ice Cover on the East Coast of Canada,
February-March, 1969-2006:
Implications for harp and hooded seals
An examination of ice cover in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence and
east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1969 to 2006 and its
effect on harp and hooded seal populations.
Added: 7 August 2007 |
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Importing
Cruelty Canada's Commercial Seal Hunt: Cruel and Unsustainable
The Canadian seal hunt is the world’s largest marine mammal
hunt. It is
unacceptably cruel and biologically unsustainable, as documented in
this
report.
Added: 7 August 2007 |
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Seals
and Sealing in Canada 2007
A new Report prepared by Sheryl Fink of International Fund for Animal
Welfare (IFAW), containing facts and statistics on harp and hooded
seals and the commercial seal hunt, as well as the IFAW's efforts
to end it.
Added: 7 August 2007 |
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Improving
Humane Practice in the Canadian Harp Seal Hunt
This Report dated August 2005 and prepared by Bruce Smith of BLSmith
Workgroup, details recommendations made by the Independent Veterinarians'
Working Group. None of these recommendations were adopted by DFO,
perhaps for the simple reason that the suggested recommendations cannot
be implemented - the very nature of the seal hunt prevents the recommendations
from being adopted and precludes it from ever being humane.
Added: 20 July 2007 |
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Canada’s
Commercial Seal Hunt is Not “Acceptably Humane"
This Report, prepared in 2005 by David M. Lavigne, Science Advisor
for IFAW, examines the Burden and Daoust Reports
Added: 7 August 2007 |
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Public
Morality and the Canadian Seal Hunt
A ground-breaking report by Oxford University Professor Rev. Andrew
Linzey and endorsed by over 65 leading academics, some from Canada,
including best-selling author and Nobel Laureate John Coetzee. This
report argues that Canada's commercial seal hunt cannot be morally
justified and that basic principles of humane slaughter are violated
in the course of the hunt.
Added: 10 December 2006 |
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Seals
and Sealing in Canada
A comprehensive Report prepared by Sheryl Fink and David Lavigne of
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and published in 2005,
containing facts and statistics on harp and hooded seals and the commercial
seal hunt, as well as the IFAW's efforts to end it.
Added: 20 July 2007 |
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Economics
of Canadian Sealing Industry
Published in 2001 by the Canadian Institute for Business and the Environment
(CIBE) with financial support of International Fund for Animal Welfare
(IFAW), this Report is one of the most complete analyses of the income,
expenditures and subsidies associated with the Atlantic Canadian sealing
industry. It highlights over $20 million in government subsidies given
to the Atlantic sealing industry from 1995 to 2001. The chief finding
of the report was that the high subsidies have failed to create a
viable industry capable of standing on its own.
Added: 13 Nov 2006 |
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Harp
Seal Populations in the Northwestern Atlantic: Modelling Populations
with Uncertainty
Written by Professor Stephen Harris, Carl D. Soulsbury and Graziella
Iossa, this report evaluates the scientific model used by DFO to estimate
harp seal populations, set harp seal allowable catches (TACs) and
model the effect of different culling pressure.
Added: 16 Nov 2006 |
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Veterinary
Report - 2001 Canadian Commercial Seal Hunt
This report was published by six independent veterinarians commissioned
by IFAW to act as licensed observers of the commercial seal hunt in
2001. Their finding was that the seal hunt resulted in “considerable
and unacceptable suffering” and that in 42% of seal skulls examined,
there was not enough evidence of cranial injury to guarantee unconsciousness
at the time of skinning.
Added: 13 Nov 2006 |
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Animal
Welfare and the Harp Seal Hunt in Atlantic Canada
This is the report – also written by veterinarians who observed
the commercial seal hunt in 2001 - from which the government and sealing
proponents like to quote from time to time. However, read in its entirety
it is far from the ringing endorsement of sealing that the government
would have us believe.
Added: 13 Nov 2006 |
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