Newfoundland Canada Seal Hunt

Newfoundland Canada Seal Hunt



Introduction:

Nunavut is an indigenous people of the area of northern Canada and one of the activities livelihoods of its people is the sealing ring, this practice has been around since in this community and maximize the resource does not only use as food but using their skins for clothing, oil production(Mowat, 1984). According to this, population engaged in seal hunting is sustainable in ecological and biological terms. Despite the existence of this town every year for the month of March begins on the coast Labrador and Newfoundland (the area known as "front") the hunting of seals by the thousands of conspicuous consumption.

The seal hunt has a number of regulations which include the approval hunters follow a training course annually. Another rule to be followed is that animals are slaughtered in the least painful way possible. The below report discusses some of the positive aspects of the seal hunting which is the basis of it existence despite the numbers of controversies and pressure on it.

Discussion:

Economic Importance of Sealing to Atlantic Canada

The landed value of seal pelts in Newfoundland and Labrador ranked ninth in 2008, accounting for 1.2% of the landed value of Newfoundland fisheries. The landed value of Atlantic cod today is more than four times greater than the value of the commercial seal hunt.

The landed value of the entire Newfoundland fishery has increased by more than 40% since the collapse of the cod fishery, with an estimated 2008 production value of over $1 billion. The economic importance of sealing to Newfoundland and Labrador is extremely small, accounting for less than half of one percent of the provincial GDP (IFAW, 2007).

Canada's commercial seal hunt continues to require significant amounts of financial and other support from the federal government. Canadian tax payer dollars are spent on sending government delegations overseas to promote the seal hunt, providing sealers with icebreaking services and access to seal herds, and federal grants for seal product development and marketing, all in direct opposition to the will of the Canadian public. There are a number of active tourism and seafood product boycotts against Canada, and the worldwide negative publicity generated by Canada's commercial seal hunt result in unknown, but likely significant costs (CBC News, 2009).

Tradition and Business:

The price of sealskin multiplied tenfold in the last 5 years. Authorities Canadians pay 20 cents for every puppy that kills. The demand for skins are highly prized in the fashion industry in several countries and its main markets are China, Japan, Norway, Estonia, Greece, Hong Kong, Poland, Denmark and Russia, as a seal fur are priced between $ 40 a piece. But even so, the tourism industry creates whale watching in Newfoundland is greater than the seal hunt. Related to tourism has begun to emerge packages Resorts that flight reservations for Norway and the right to kill a baby seal.

Canada, representing about 4,500 million dollars in 2004 and is the major food exporting country. USA was one of these countries joined this ...