It's no longer worth fighting for the seal hunt

Source: The Montreal Gazette

About 6,000 people take part in the annual east-coast seal hunts, the first of which for 2010 started this year. The total harvest brings in roughly $15 million a year. That averages $2,500 per person; no wonder nobody is known to make a living solely from the seal hunt.

Prices for skins - the most lucrative part of the animals by far - have imploded since the European Union, in its meddlesome arrogance, banned seal products from the east coast (but not from the Inuit hunt).

The federal government is fighting the EU ban before the World Trade Organization, at a cost sure to be substantial. Even greater is the cost to Canada's reputation from the propaganda frenzy associated with the hunt.

This game is no longer worth the candle. For the federal government, $15 million a year is small change; why not just forbid seal hunting, pay off the sealers for a transition period of, say, five years, and then forget the whole business?

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I have always supported the moderators for the tough job they do. There have been times I have wondered the process on some stories and how they are handled.

When a paper that has supported the seal hunt for over 30 years changes it's mind based on solid economic facts, that is (LBN) news!

OS

After all, alot of the hunters are from Newfoundland and Labrador.

All that would be required is to convert the hunt into one for food.

But that would require Harper to have a new idea.

Food or other wise.

this has no impact on the Inuit at all correct?