People in northern Canada make a living by killing seals. Due to the extreme cold weather and environmental restrictions in northern Canada, the Inuit people living there cannot grow crops and develop animal husbandry, while Newfoundland Province in northern Canada is remote and underdeveloped, so their main source of livelihood is seals living in the Atlantic Ocean.

In the Atlantic Ocean near Newfoundland in northern Canada, the seal population is not only healthy but also numerous, with about 5 million. Although the Canadian government announced as early as 1942 that the annual number of seals killed in Canada would be controlled at 15000, the number of seals killed in Canada has been increasing year by year due to the great increase in the world market demand for seal skins.

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The People's Daily reported the scene of killing seals, which was terrible.

In Canada, * * * 12000 people hold the legal seal hunting license. The main breeding place of seals is Newfoundland, and the export of seal skins is the main economic income of the province. However, in recent years, the number of harp seals (a kind of seals) has soared, which has drastically reduced the number of fish in the Atlantic Ocean, especially the precious cod, and affected the local fishery.

Moreover, the export of seal skin can solve the economic difficulties of this province. Therefore, the Canadian government has increased the number of seals killed this year to 350,000. At the same time, the government allowed a total of 654.38 million seals to be killed in 2004-2006.

2016 April 12 and 13, in Newfoundland, Canada, the largest seal hunting operation in 50 years was carried out on the huge ice floes along the coast: thousands of seals were killed by about 2,500 strong hunters with legal hunting licenses with rifles and thick sticks. Many hunters hit the seal on the head with sticks 1 meter long.

Hunters killed nearly 350,000 seals in just 36 hours in order to get seal skins worth 6.5438+0.8 million dollars. The dead seals piled up in a hill on the huge ice, and the hunters were busy peeling the seals and transporting them away with a 150 trailer. The seal blood soaked the huge ice and dyed the sea water red. Some wounded seals were left on the ice before they died, groaning in despair.

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People's Network-Canadian humanitarian organization aerial photography to kill seals is cruel

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Eskimo