Purpose: This bill would urge the Canadian government to end the commercial clubbing and shooting of close to one million baby harp seals over the next three years, the highest quota for seal killing in Canada’s history and the largest commercial kill of marine mammals in the world.
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Status: Referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
Action: SUPPORT. Killing the seals won’t bring back the cod, whose precipitously declining numbers mean unemployment for Newfoundland fishermen. This year’s seal hunt has already resulted in the deaths of more than 320,000 seals mostly between the ages of 12 days and 3 months. It is time for the Canadian government to end its promotion and subsidies of these cruel and ineffective commercial seal hunts.