Saturday, March 25, 2006

Ice Sea Hunting


Canadian sealers navigate their boats through an ice floe in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during the annual seal hunt in this April 1, 2005 file photo. The federal department of Fisheries and Oceans announced March 23, 2006 that the annual seal hunt will commence this Saturday with an overall catch quota of 325,000 seals. REUTERS/Paul Darrow


A ice floe stretches through the Gulf of St. Lawrence Friday March 24, 2006. Despite poor ice conditions throughout the area the annual harp seal hunt will start Saturday where 325,000 seals harvested. (AP Photo/CP,Jonathan Hayward)


A ice floe stretches through the Gulf of St. Lawrence Friday March 24, 2006. Despite poor ice conditions throughout the area the annual harp seal hunt will start Saturday where 325,000 seals harvested. (AP Photo/CP,Jonathan Hayward)


ATTENTION EDITORS - GRAPHIC CONTENT Rebecca Aldworth, of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), moves up to a seal carcass that was discarded by sealers after they removed its pelt on the first day of the seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, March 25, 2006. REUTERS/Paul Darrow


In this photo released by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), a hunter drags a seal back to his boat after it was shot on the first day of the 2006 Canadian commercial seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada on Saturday March 25, 2006. IFAW experts were onsite to observe and document the hunt. (AP Photo/IFAW, Stewart Cook, HO)


Blood soaks through a ice pan in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, where a harp seal was killed Saturday March 25, 2006. The annual harp seal hunt started today where some 325,000 harp seals will be harvested. (AP Photo/CP,Jonathan Hayward)


Sealers search the ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, Saturday March 25, 2006 for harp seals. The annual harp seal hunt started Saturday where some 325,000 harp seals will be harvested. (AP Photo/CP, Jonathan Hayward)


Sealers use a small boat to scout for seals on the ice pans in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, March 25, 2006. Saturday marked the first day of the east coast seal hunt. Canadian hunters started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups on Saturday at the start of an annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal rights groups. This year, 325,000 young seals will be killed on the ice floes off the East Coast where the animals gather. (Paul Darrow/Reuters)



A seal boat passes a harp seal in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the opening day of the hunt, March 25, 2006. (Paul Darrow/Reuters)


A sealer drags a seal off an ice pan during the first day of the annual seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada March 25, 2006. Saturday marked the first day of the east coast seal hunt. Canadian hunters started shooting and clubbing harp seal pups on Saturday at the start of an annual hunt that is the focus of a tech-savvy protest by animal rights groups. This year, 325,000 young seals will be killed on the ice floes off the East Coast where the animals gather. REUTERS/Paul Darrow

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