Sea Shepherd returning to Canadian seal hunt

Posted March 24, 2008

Sea Shepherd Announces Seal Defense Campaign 2008! (click here for more)

For the first time since 2005, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will venture into the ice packs of the St. Lawrence in defense of the harp seal pups.

“They say it’s part of their culture,” said Captain Watson, president and founder of Sea Shepherd who himself grew up in an Eastern fishing village in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. “It’s a culture based on the cruel clubbing of baby seals for a few weeks each year and drinking Canadian Club and beer the rest of the year. It’s a culture that any Maritimer with half a brain abandoned generations ago.”

Captain Watson has been fighting the Canadian seal slaughter all his life. The commercial hunt was shut down in 1984 and resurrected in 1994.

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