Over-Regulation Killing the Seal Hunt

While visiting Foxtrap, N.L. this spring, I attended, out of curiosity, a training course for people who wanted to get a personal sealers license. A personal sealing license is a license to kill a seal to eat — limit of six per license and the hunter is not permitted to sell the pelt. This course was put off by Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The local fisheries officer started off by listing some of the things that they were not allowed to do and make the statement that if you ...