Sea Shepherd Crew Attacked by Sealers – 2005 Seal Defense
Sea Shepherd – Seal Defense Campaign – 2005
Farley Mowat Footage during our 2005 Seal Defense Campaign.
In 2005 eleven Sea Shepherd crew were arrested after being attacked and assaulted by sealers on the ice. Despite being struck by sealing clubs, punched and kicked, not one sealer was arrested for assault. The attack was video-taped and the sealers identified yet the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stated there was insufficient evidence to charge the sealers. The Sea Shepherd crew were jailed and fined for approaching within a half a nautical mile of a seal being killed.
In addition to the hazards of thick ice and nasty weather, the Sea Shepherd crew face the threat of violence from the sealers and the threat of arrest under the Canadian Seal Protection regulations that make it a criminal offense to witness or document the killing of a seal without the permission of the government of Canada.
Canada’s commercial seal “hunt” is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world. This year, Canada will allow 270,000 harp seals to be killed.
Canada’s 2006 quota for killing seals: 325,000 for the regular commercial “hunt” and an additional 10,000 harp seal allowance for new aboriginal initiatives, personal use, and Arctic hunts. As usual, the commercial quota was exceeded, resulting in over 330,000 seals being kiilled.
During the previous three years, the government of Canada delivered the death sentence to over one million baby harp seals.
Sea Shepherd continues to oppose this annual obscenity called a “hunt.” It is not a hunt because the sealers simply walk up to the seals (who have no means of escaping or hiding) and bash the seals on the head or shoot them.
Sea Shepherd, known for direct action, has and continues to use other methods to fight to bring the “hunt” to a permanent end. In 2005, Sea Shepherd joined many other organizations in promoting the international boycott of Canadian seafood products as a means to strip the commercial seal “hunt” of all economic value and force it, by financial means, to end. The Boycott of Canadian Seafood targets the very people who slaughter the seals: It is the fishing industry that runs the seal “hunt” which is a make-work project for off-season fisherman.
Sea Shepherd Seal Defense
http://www.seashepherd.org/seals/
Duration : 0:1:28
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Sea Shepherd – Martin Sheen – Seal Defense Campaign
Canada’s commercial seal “hunt” is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world. This year, Canada will allow 270,000 harp seals to be killed.
Canada’s 2006 quota for killing seals: 325,000 for the regular commercial “hunt” and an additional 10,000 harp seal allowance for new aboriginal initiatives, personal use, and Arctic hunts. As usual, the commercial quota was exceeded, resulting in over 330,000 seals being kiilled.
During the previous three years, the government of Canada delivered the death sentence to over one million baby harp seals.
Sea Shepherd continues to oppose this annual obscenity called a “hunt.” It is not a hunt because the sealers simply walk up to the seals (who have no means of escaping or hiding) and bash the seals on the head or shoot them.
Sea Shepherd, known for direct action, has and continues to use other methods to fight to bring the “hunt” to a permanent end. In 2005, Sea Shepherd joined many other organizations in promoting the international boycott of Canadian seafood products as a means to strip the commercial seal “hunt” of all economic value and force it, by financial means, to end. The Boycott of Canadian Seafood targets the very people who slaughter the seals: It is the fishing industry that runs the seal “hunt” which is a make-work project for off-season fisherman.
Sea Shepherd Seal Defense
http://www.seashepherd.org/seals/
Duration : 0:1:4
Categories: Seafood Products Tags: canada, canadian, coast, farley, guard, harp, killer, martin, mowat, paul, rammed, sea, seal, seals, sheen, shepherd, society, watson
STOP!!! The Bloody Seal Massacre
There should be nothing contentious about Canada’s annual seal massacre or slaughter, of baby harp seals annually, it’s wrong! simple as that!
You’ll never hear me call it a ‘hunt’ because that’s not what it is.
True hunters outwit, outseek, look for, find, have respect for their prey and only take what they need to survive etc.
The thugs brutes and just plain sons a that Canadian sealers AKA (baby seal murderers) are; are not hunters! they do not hunt! They simply walk up to the seal nursery and bash in the egg shell thin skull of every completely and utterly defenseless baby seal that’s there, and cruelly and horrifically destroy the newly born harp seals and their magical home which is absolute heaven on earth.
Canadian sealers have admitted doing this for fun 
“we all go out for the love of it, rather then for the money”
http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_070423_1.html
And themselves have said that horrific and unforgivable acts have occurred out there on ice floes which are routinely recorded and witnessed by observers every year it continues.
Contrary to popular belief, not every person in Newfoundland supports this and many are sympathetic towards the seals, as this is something no thinking compassionate person if they witnessed it in person with their own two eyes could ever tolerate.
Like I’ve said before these Canadian fishermen certainly don’t need it to survive and the DFO lies and goes to great lengths to protect an annual horrific, mad, sensless, wasteful, cruel, disgusting, shameful, unnecessary massacre of baby seals. Which exists in the modern era out of greed tradition and Newfoundland politics.
Being heartbroken certainly isn’t enough; we know what goes on! so let’s STOP!!! this bloody seal massacre once and for all.
Boycott Canadian Seafood! take away the fisherman’s #1 source of income which outweighs by billions the blood money which is made from the heinous and evil act that is sealing and make them give up this annual horrific unnecessary slaughter of hundreds of thousands of baby seals for fur coats.
Economic language is the only language the DFO (Destruction of Fisheries and Oceans) and Canadian government understands.
Just because something’s been going on a long time doesn’t make it right or justifiable in any way.
We can end this! spread the word of the boycott, don’t patronize Red (Dead Lobster) which is the biggest purchaser of Canadian seafood in North America and has thus far refused to join in the international boycott of Canadian seafood products; which was implemented to protest and stop Canada’s ultimate shame and its international disgrace it’s so selfishly and arrogantly likes to call it it’s ‘seal hunt’.
STOP THE BLOODY SEAL MASSACRE NOW!!!
Please visit my blog on my profile for written articles and links to help end this unnecessary shameful slaughter of hundreds of thousands of baby seals annually.
This video was uploaded with permission from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)
Thank You
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Sea Shepherd – Seal Defense Campaign – 2005 Crew Arrested
Sea Shepherd – Seal Defense Campaign – 2005
Farley Mowat Footage 2005 Seal Defense Campaign.
Sea Shepherd crew are assulted, arrested, dragged, fined and jailed.
In 2005 eleven Sea Shepherd crew were arrested after being attacked and assaulted by sealers on the ice. Despite being struck by sealing clubs, punched and kicked, not one sealer was arrested for assault. The attack was video-taped and the sealers identified yet the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stated there was insufficient evidence to charge the sealers. The Sea Shepherd crew were jailed and fined for approaching within a half a nautical mile of a seal being killed.
In addition to the hazards of thick ice and nasty weather, the Sea Shepherd crew face the threat of violence from the sealers and the threat of arrest under the Canadian Seal Protection regulations that make it a criminal offense to witness or document the killing of a seal without the permission of the government of Canada.
Canada’s commercial seal “hunt” is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world. This year, Canada will allow 270,000 harp seals to be killed.
Canada’s 2006 quota for killing seals: 325,000 for the regular commercial “hunt” and an additional 10,000 harp seal allowance for new aboriginal initiatives, personal use, and Arctic hunts. As usual, the commercial quota was exceeded, resulting in over 330,000 seals being kiilled.
During the previous three years, the government of Canada delivered the death sentence to over one million baby harp seals.
Sea Shepherd continues to oppose this annual obscenity called a “hunt.” It is not a hunt because the sealers simply walk up to the seals (who have no means of escaping or hiding) and bash the seals on the head or shoot them.
Sea Shepherd, known for direct action, has and continues to use other methods to fight to bring the “hunt” to a permanent end. In 2005, Sea Shepherd joined many other organizations in promoting the international boycott of Canadian seafood products as a means to strip the commercial seal “hunt” of all economic value and force it, by financial means, to end. The Boycott of Canadian Seafood targets the very people who slaughter the seals: It is the fishing industry that runs the seal “hunt” which is a make-work project for off-season fisherman.
Sea Shepherd Seal Defense
http://www.seashepherd.org/seals/
Duration : 0:1:11
Categories: Seafood Products Tags: canada, canadian, club, coast, farley, guard, harp, killer, mowat, paul, rammed, sea, seal, seals, shepherd, society, watson
Sea Shepherd – Farley Mowat Rammed – 2008 Seal Defense
Canadian Coast Guard Rams Farley Mowat
The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS Des Groseilliers twice rammed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship Farley Mowat.
The Coast Guard had ordered the Farley Mowat to not approach the area where seals are being slaughtered. When the Farley Mowat did not comply, the Coast Guard rammed the vessel near the port aft stern area. After the Farley Mowat stopped in the ice, the Coast Guard rammed the ship a second time in the same area of the ship causing damage to the plates in that area.
The Coast Guard has demonstrated extreme recklessness with this move. The crew of the Farley Mowat were engaged in documenting the slaughter of seals. They were not interfering with the hunt.
“I’m beginning to wonder if anyone on the bridge of the Groseilliers has a license to command a ship,” said Captain Alex Cornelissen. “The incompetence of the Coast Guard has already cost the lives of four sealers this week-end and now they are ramming ships in dangerous ice conditions. This is unbelievable. It’s like the Coast Guard has declared war on seal defenders and the sealers are collateral damage.”
The Farley Mowat will remain in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and will continue to document the atrocities on the ice. Already the crew have seen enough evidence to understand that the Canadian government’s pretense that the slaughter is humane has no basis in reality — in other words it’s a state sponsored lie.
“It appears that Canada is prepared to use violence to cover-up the truth of this slaughter,” said Captain Paul Watson. “Our duty is to resist their violence and continue to document the truth.”
Canada’s commercial seal “hunt” is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world. This year, Canada will allow 270,000 harp seals to be killed.
Canada’s 2006 quota for killing seals: 325,000 for the regular commercial “hunt” and an additional 10,000 harp seal allowance for new aboriginal initiatives, personal use, and Arctic hunts. As usual, the commercial quota was exceeded, resulting in over 330,000 seals being killed.
During the previous three years, the government of Canada delivered the death sentence to over one million baby harp seals.
Sea Shepherd continues to oppose this annual obscenity called a “hunt.” It is not a hunt because the sealers simply walk up to the seals (who have no means of escaping or hiding) and bash the seals on the head or shoot them.
Sea Shepherd, known for direct action, has and continues to use other methods to fight to bring the “hunt” to a permanent end. In 2005, Sea Shepherd joined many other organizations in promoting the international boycott of Canadian seafood products as a means to strip the commercial seal “hunt” of all economic value and force it, by financial means, to end. The Boycott of Canadian Seafood targets the very people who slaughter the seals: It is the fishing industry that runs the seal “hunt” which is a make-work project for off-season fisherman.
Sea Shepherd Seal Defense
http://www.seashepherd.org/seals/
Duration : 0:3:19