Harp Seal Pups Dying

You have to be able to get an emotional response out of people if your ever going to be able to fundraise from any animal species. The white, fluffy harp seal pup with it’s large eyes is the perfect subject. Especially if you can get the photo with the seal pup eyes tearing up. Reality has little to do with all this.

Photos of the common rat young will just disgust people, therefore no donations. You can forget cows too, they are ugly. Can you think of a animal species that is hunted, is pretty to look at and you can get the needed emotional response? If you come up with one, this would be the species that animal rights/ environmental groups will try and emotional protect and of course, fundraise from. The best part, ethics are not even required. You can lie all you wish, produce false data, stage videos and photoshop all the photos your little heart desires. In actuality little physical work needs to be done. The majority of the action happens online. This is what’s called emotional protection verses actual physical protection.

As I write this little rant, countless thousands of Harp seal pups are ending up on the beaches of eastern Canada due to lack of ice. Are the animal rights/environmental groups rallying their resources, jumping on ships and rushing to their aid? Little chance of that ever happening. This would require physical help and that’s just not going to happen. Being compassionate is great but that’s not what is needed here. The numerous groups who fundraise from the Canadian seal hunt should get up off their chairs and for the first time, actually go help the Harp seal pups.

The Humane Society of the United States ( HSUS) is the world’s largest and self-proclaimed animal protection organization. They earned 160 million dollars last year ( 2010) and has assets of 205 million dollars. If anyone could afford to help out, this organization could. The HSUS has raised millions of dollars protesting against the Canadian seal hunt, but not surprisingly, totally absent if a real need arises. The HSUS appears to be humane in name only.
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The Seal Hunt Figures-2009

QUICK FACTS:
Harp seal quota for 2009 hunt:338,200
Harp seal quota for 2008 hunt: 275,000
Harp seal quota for 2007 hunt: 270,000
Estimated size of the seal herd off Atlantic Canada in 2009: 6.4 million seals
Price for best seal pelts in 2006: $105
Price for best seal pelts in 2007: $62
Price for best seal pelts in 2008: $33

Price for best seal pelts in 2009: $14

Fewer than 500 vessels carrying 1,000 hunters ventured out for the annual Canadian seal hunt this year with only about 70,000 harp seals taken. Frank Pinhorn of the Canadian Sealers Association said many fishermen decided not to go out this year because of pelt prices that have bottomed out at $14. "Anything under $35 would be low and they won't participate because they won't recover their costs," he said Wednesday from St. John's, Newfoundland.

"There are only three companies here that buy pelts and they were not buying. Pinhorn said Newfoundland sealers will probably bring in just over $1 million this year."

70,000 seal pelts at 14 bucks each comes to just under 1 million dollars. 1,000 seal hunters earned 1 thousand bucks each for the year 2009. From the 1000 bucks that each sealer earned, the expenses of running a boat comes out of that. Fuel, repairs etc. Then take into account of the risks and hardships one must endure while hunting seals on the ice pans. Last year, four sealers lost their lives. This year, a 66 year old man was stranded on the ice for 2 days after his boat sank. He was rescued.

The Humane Society of United States (HSUS) who is one of the biggest complainers of the Canadian seal hunt earned 107 million dollars in 2008. During the 2009 seal hunt the HSUS also suffered a disaster when the coffee machine located at their head offices broke down. The poor staff there had to suffer and endure 3 hours of no hot coffee. My heart goes out to them. Maybe they could buy a new coffee machine with some of the 107 million they made last year.

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Support Our Canadian Seal Hunt...

I see Canada being pushed around by a great many anti sealing people, most of which are not even in Canada. I think maybe it's time for Canada to grow a pair and tell the rest of the world to mind their own business. Germany kills 500,000 wild boars every year. People in Holland trap up to one million muskrats every year to prevent them from boring holes in their dikes. Do the bunny huggers ever protest that??

There are one hell of a lot of seals off Canada's east coast. According to the department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, the Canadian harp seal is listed as "least concerned". The harp seal population is healthy and abundant. The Northwest Atlantic harp seal population is currently estimated at 5.6 million animals, nearly triple what it was in the 1970s, and has been at that level for the past ten years. I believe the Canadian harp seal in one of the most abundant marine mammals on the face of the planet.

Canada does not need any help from outsiders to look after our seals. We seem to be able to look after them just fine all by ourselves.

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It's official: Caribbean monk seal is extinct

Notice to all AR wingnuts.

It's official: Caribbean monk seal is now extinct
Only seal species to vanish due to human impacts; two other species at risk.

Congratulation to all the AR people who have sacrificed their time and energy to try and help the seal populations of the world. Keep up the good work.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25007277/

But, lets us not worry about seal species that really need help and protection. It's, after all, just one species of seal has gone extinct. Rather lets us focus our attention on the most heavily populated seal in the world. The harp seal of eastern Canada with a population estimated last year at 6 million.

But wait just one minute here, would the reason the animal rights people have never said word one about the monk seal have anything to do with money?? The harp seal in Canada with their vast numbers brings in millions of dollars in donations and the monk seal brings in no donations. NAH-animal rights would never do that to us!!
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The Canadian Seal Protest Business

The total number of known threatened species in the world today (2009) stands at 16,938, of the 44,838 species assessed using the IUCN Red list criteria. Threatened species are those listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable.

http://www.endangeredspeciesinternational.org/overview2.html

With so many species of animals threatened today, why are the animal rights protest groups screaming about Canada's seal hunt? The Canadian harp seal is one of the most abundant animals on the planet . According to the department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, the Canadian harp seal is listed as "least concerned". The harp seal population is healthy and abundant. The Northwest Atlantic harp seal population is currently estimated at 5.6 million animals, nearly triple what it was in the 1970s, and has been at that level for the past ten years.

http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fm-gp/seal-phoque/myth-eng.htm

What animal right protest groups have learned is that through cleverly worded propaganda messages, they can get the public to go running for their checkbooks. The animal rights groups use the seal hunt as an annual fundraising event and their attacks fill up their coffers by using emotional pitches and half-truths. The fact is that these groups are actually making more money from the annual Atlantic seal hunt than the sealers themselves earn. Take for example the $77.5 million U.S. the International Fund For Animal Welfare raised last year and it's easy to see the benefits seal hunting actually bring to protest groups. Greenpeace pulls in 35 million dollars a year. PETA makes close to 40 million. HSUS earns a hefty 100 million a year. Fund raising, not protection of species, is often their prime objective.

Animal rights groups were very quick to see the economical gold mine in "Saving Canadian Seals". In 2007, it is estimated that animal rights groups earned nearly 300 million dollars worldwide protesting the seal hunt in one year. How much money have the animal rights groups made since they started protesting the seal hunt. The figures must be staggering.

Solely for the purpose of fundraising, animal rights protest groups argue against the Canadian seal hunt, one of the most numerous animals on the planet. All the while, 16,938 species of animals that are in trouble seem to be ignored.

Go figure...
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The Numbers Are Coming In.

One of the biggest misconceptions of how big the seal hunt protest really is can be found in the very place the hunt takes place, Canada. In 2009, seal protests took place all over this country. In Vancouver, the third biggest city in Canada, 70 seal hunt protesters turned out. In Edmonton, no seal hunt protesters. They just hung a banner on a bridge. In Calgary, 40 seal hunt protesters. Ottawa got all way up to 100 protesters.

Canada has a population of over 33 million people. The seal hunt takes place on the east coast of Canada and there are very few people in this country that protest the seal hunt. What the seal protest groups try and tell you is that whole country is rising up in protest. Well...that's just more of their crap.

While the seal hunt protest industry is using one hand to hold up their signs, the second hand is coming around your back reaching for your wallet. Animal rights groups use exploitation of perceived animal cruelty as a means to make vast amounts of money. And big money there is. Figures show that the seal hunt protest groups earn over 100 million dollars a year. Yes folks, I said 100 million.

So if there is anyone reading this that want to make the big bucks...seal hunt protesting is the way to go.

http://www.cvfaf.org/2009SHRally.html
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The Canadian seal hunt 2009

March 23/2009

QUICK FACTS:
Harp seal quota for 2009 hunt:338,200
Harp seal quota for 2008 hunt: 275,000
Harp seal quota for 2007 hunt: 270,000
Estimated size of the seal herd off Atlantic Canada in 2009: 6.4 million seals
Price for best seal pelts in 2006: $105
Price for best seal pelts in 2007: $62
Expected price for best seal pelts in 2008: $33

Expected price for best seal pelts in 2009: $31

According to the Canadian Fisheries and Oceans department, the value of the Canadian seal hunt in 2008 was seven million Canadian dollars (six million US).

Once again the annual Canadian seal hunt is up and running. In 2008 the sealers earned approx. 8.25 million dollars directly from the seal hunt. That is 250 thousand seals harvested at 33 bucks each.

And now for the 100's of animal rights groups worldwide that protest the seal hunt. The estimate of the money earned by them ranges from 100 million a year all the way up to 300 million a year. WOW-big bucks from the seal protest industry.

For the sealers to earn their money, they will need a ship and crew, expense money, fuel and be willing to take big risks. For all that they get paid very little.

For the seal protesters, they will need a computer, a chair and their hot coffee. For all that they get paid up to 300 million dollars.

The moral of the story here is get out of sealing and get into the seal protest business.
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