Melting ice drowns baby seals before hunters can club them to death
The first stage of Canada’s controversial annual harp seal hunt is likely to be scrapped because the ice floes where pups are born have broken up and many animals have drowned, officials and animal rights activists said.
The first part of the hunt, which was due to start today, occurs in the Gulf of St Lawrence to the south of the Magdalen Islands on the east coast. Hunters move across the ice floes, shooting and clubbing to death young seals.
Go to original by David Ljunggren in Ottawa
