Seal Alert

The hunt is Canada is tightly regulated and sealers can loosing their license and face charges for breaking the laws.

The vast majority of seals are shot not killed with the hakipik.
It is illegal to skin a seal alive, new regulations have come into place to insure the animal is dead.

Vets have even held voluntary workshops for sealers on the new regulations and quick humane methods to kill seals. It has been  estimated that so far a third of the sealers have attended these workshops. Many consider this as proof  there that these are not barbaric killers.

In Canada a seal cannot be hunted until it is independent from it’s mother. While young seals can be hunted the hunting of white coat baby harp seals was outlawed in 1987.  Try to check  the age at which most farm animals are slaughtered. The majority of farm animals are killed around the same age most seals are hunted or the same level of development.