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Newfoundland Labrador Concerned with PETA 2 Attack

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Fisher King · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 6:07 am Post subject:

The seals also eat a lot of cod so if we are to get a rebound in the cod stockes seals need to be taken. But you don't see PETA hugging A cod fish.
I gess they arn't a cute as a furry little seal.
F.K.

Hammer1 · Moderator/Bull Whacker Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 1701

The Cod Stocks are pretty well done now Think

The absence of a managed seal hunt will increase seal population to uncontrollable levels.

numbnutz · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 11:36 am Post subject:

out here in oregon we have a huge problem with seals eating our salmon in the rivers on there return trip from the ocean, the state just go approval from the feds to kill some of the problem seals, i guess we will see how it works.

atomikall · Bull Whacker Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1964

Hammer, LOL

I also agree, we have alot of problems with certain mammals and fish ducks that have to be dealt with before we have 4 or 5 more species on the endangered or extinct list.

You guys with the Seals - eating cod and salmon
We have way to many cormorants - eating pickeral and any other types of fish they can
And soon Bears - eating people,(if you ask me the cancellation of the spring bear hunt was a very bad idea and soon enough they will have no choice but to reinstate it ) if the government here dosent step up the hunting regs its gonna get nasty for bear -- human relations in the north.
In the Sudbury district this year the bear complaints are in the 10s of thousands and around my area there is a trap on every second street and the bears they do catch are somehow finding thier way back. So the relocation isnt actually working to great. I have a different bear in my yard every night, anyone else with this problem.

decker · Buck Master Joined: 13 Jan 2008 Posts: 16

my dad is a sealer and last spring he started reciving threatening phone calls from someone i assume it was people peta. they would call in the middle of the night and tell him to come outside they were going to beat him and kill him and say they were going to burn down the house the cops said the calls were coming from a pay phone in montreal

Hammer1 · Moderator/Bull Whacker Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 1701

Answering machines are the answer to that problem Laugh

heinz57 · Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject:

davis · Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:50 pm Post subject:

Strange group indeed. I'm from Newfoundland and my grandfather actually purchases/sells seal pelts, so I hear all kinds of crazy stuff that people try to pull. Funny thing though....they'll kick up all kinds of stink about the sealing industry which a lot people depend on for a living, but yet nobody mentions the Faroe Islands whale slaughter that takes place as merely a cultural event for the communities, or Britain's fox hunt. If it does get mentioned it's quickly avoided because the sealing industry is apparently the only one that is viewed as evil.

Disturbs me to no end.

heinz57 · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject:

how come when i go shopping i never see any seal meat in the meat counter?it must be good to eat ??? the seal population must be very high so why don't we HARVEST them for food ..

davis · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:17 pm Post subject:

Because eating seal is probably the equivalent of eating a your pet dog/cat to some people, haha. The seal numbers are actually quite high....the population of one herd was estimated at 5.5 million for 2008, and the total allowable catch (TAC) from that was 275,000.

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media.....18-eng.htm

heinz57 · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject:

jim muir · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject:

The reason you probably never see it for sale is to quote a friend of mine from Newfoundland, " Seal tastes alot like Turr and Turr tastes like a kereosene soaked boot."

davis · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:23 am Post subject:

That's a pretty accurate description of it there, Jim, haha. Oddly enough, I frickin love turr (I shot about 60 of 'em during the week I was home), seal is really greasey and stinks up the house when you cook it but is always a good meal. Definitely more of an acquired taste though.

heinz57 -> here's a link to some nutritional information about seal meat...
http://www.sealharvest.ca/html.....efits.html

heinz57 · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:37 am Post subject:

thanks for the link davis very interesting ..too bad they don't sell the omega 3 from seals ..as for the meat if it smells my wife would not let me cook it ..i boiled down some bear fat to extract the oil and she took a fit ..oh well nothing is perfect in this world ..