In Canada, the season for the commercial hunt of harp seal is from November 15 to May 15. Most sealing occurs in late March in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and during the first or second week of April off Newfoundland, in an area known as "The Front."


Canada's commercial seal "hunt" is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world. This year, 2008 Canada will allow 270,000 harp seals to be brutally killed. During the previous three years, the government of Canada delivered the death sentence to over one million baby harp seals.


Whitecoats are newborn harp seals. Young harp seals lose their white coats (and their protection) at about 12 to 14 days of age. After that, they're fair game for hunters.

The federal government acknowledges that it has laid more than 200 charges against sealers since 1996 for abusive methods used to kill these mammals. The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) believe the the seals are killed in an acceptably humane manner. Official DFO kill reports show 97 percent of the seals killed over the past five years have been under three months of age, and the majority has been less than one month old.
Up to 45 per cent of seals are skinned alive. This death is delivered with a gun or up close in person with a club and a knife. The only economically valuable part of the seal is it's fur , a non-essential luxury product that no one really needs. Seal penises are not aphrodisiacs. All these seals killed in the name of vanity. No one needs these furs.





All a fur garment does is show off the evil side of human nature: the vanity, the shallow personality, the indifference to the pain and suffering of others, and the hardness of heart of those who wear the fur of other beings.






"I did see some mothers killed and the pup fall out on deck still alive, told me to throw it overboard and I did. It crawled up on a pan of ice. The mother was full of milk, and the milk ran out on deck when the pup fell out."

- Sealer's Statement, taken by Cyril Furlong, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, July 3, 1998, 15:33 hrs