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Commercial Sealing Remains an Important Conservation Issue Commercial Sealing Remains an Important Conservation Issue 
In this paper Dr. David Lavigne explains why sealing – in particular, Canada’s commercial seal hunt – is an important and pressing conservation issue. Conservation is concerned with both the “use” and “preservation” of the natural world. Being the largest remaining hunt for any marine mammal population is sufficient to qualify Canada’s commercial seal hunt as an important conservation issue today.
An illustrated guide to the tools used to kill seals in Canada’s commercial seal hunt An illustrated guide to the tools used to kill seals in Canada’s commercial seal hunt
This document contains photographs taken during IFAW's observation of the Canadian commercial seal hunt to catalog both legal and illegal killing tools.
Global Warming and the Seal Hunt Global Warming and the Seal Hunt
Reduced ice cover has important implications for harp seals, which depend on the annual availability of sea ice in the Gulf and off Newfoundland and Labrador during February and March to give birth, nurse and wean their pups successfully. Lack of solid ice may increase pup mortality and ignoring the effects of climate change on seal population and Total Allowable Catch numbers is a recipe for disaster.
Canada's Commercial Seal Hunt is Not Acceptably Humane

Canada's Commercial Seal Hunt is Not Acceptably Humane"Throughout my career as a veterinarian, I have seen animals die in slaughterhouses, research labs, and animal shelters, and I can assure you that the cruelty existing in the seal hunt would not be tolerated in these institutions." Dr. Mary Richardson
IFAW’s annual publication outlines the latest facts and figures from Canada’s most recent commercial seal hunt and provides substantiated arguments for ending the hunt.
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History of IFAW's Efforts
2006 One million seals killed in just three years
1996 Harp seal quota increased to a quarter million seals thanks to government subsidies that boost the market for seal products. Harp seal quota increased
1987 Between 1983 and 1987, harp seal catches drop to an average of 36,000 a year thanks to the whitecoat pelt bans. Commercial whitecoat hunt banned
1983 Ban on whitecoat pelts
1969 IFAW was established in 1969 with the goal of saving the harp seals from the cruelty of the commercial seal hunt in Canada. IFAW founded

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