Sealers Throw Entrails at Rights Activists’ Boat
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From Times Wire Reports
Infuriated sealers trying to fend off animal rights activists flung seal guts at an inflatable boat filled with protesters as Canada’s annual hunt began on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
“They threw carcasses at our Zodiac,” said Rebecca Aldworth of the Humane Society.
The fishermen in the area’s isolated island communities say the hunt supplements their meager winter incomes. Fishermen sell the pelts, mostly for the fashion industry in Norway, Russia and China, as well as blubber for oil, earning about $60 per seal.
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