Reply #157: I appreciate your sentiments, regarding the indigenous

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peoples of Canada, but my understanding (which may of course be incomplete or incorrect and please correct me if I am wrong), is that there are no native groups involved in the east coast seal hunt. Not that these groups do not hunt seals for both subsistence and economics, but that they do not participate in this particular hunt. This one seems to be sponsored by large Canadian and Norwegian companies, primarily interested in the pelts.

Given the long history of abuses that the indigenous peoples of North America (all of it) have suffered, I am honestly conflicted when trying to determine how I feel about Native Canadian seal hunts. The idea that they make full use of their kill is some comfort, I suppose -- if that is, indeed, the case (I like to believe it is).

Newfoundlanders' and Norwegians' cannot make the same claim, however. If Newfoundlanders' feel that their fisheries are suffering because there are too many seals, then they should return to a humane culling at numbers that honestly represent the over-population that is creating the problem -- not a brutal over-kill for profit. As far as the Norwegians go, what motive do they have, other than profit?