Fisheries officials say poor ice in Gulf may affect this year's seal hunt

Source: CBC News Canada

Fisheries officials say poor ice in Gulf may affect this year's seal hunt
Published: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 | 3:37 PM ET
Canadian Press

CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) - Fisheries officials are urging seal hunters to be patient as they decide whether there are enough seals and ice in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence for a hunt this year.

Fisheries Department spokesman Phil Jenkins says the ice is poor in the southern Gulf around the Magdalen Islands and there's a higher-than-normal mortality of seal pups.

He says it's not certain a hunt can take place this year in the southern Gulf, which is the area that traditionally gives rise to the most controversy because it is accessible to observers and seal hunt protesters.

Jenkins says ice conditions are better in the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence and off the northeast coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, in an area called the Front.

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Global warming may end the seal hunt, at least this year.

Hey...I thought global warming was a myth. Hmph.