LAST year 329,000 seal pups were killed. Hunting at this level has contributed less than one percent to the Newfoundland economy. Nobody makes a living from the hunt.
In the past seals were blamed for the depletion of cod stocks in Canadian waters when in fact it was the result of over-fishing.
The British Government must ban the trade in all harp and hooded seal products. Sadly in 2004 the UK accounted for 31 per cent of total value of all imports of seal products into the EU.
We have to show the Canadian Government the world cares and will no longer stand for such cruelty. Every year thousands of seals are skinned alive on the Canadian ice.
MRS SHEILA BRENNAN, Bombay Street, Blackburn.
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