From the official site of the Canadian Seal Association (the Seal Industry group)...Meat processing on a commercial basis has always been minimal since consumption is restricted to the domestic market in Atlantic and Arctic Canada especially in Newfoundland. The hunt is not done for the meat, not on the idnustrial level.

Sorry Peace, the meat question doesn't come down to "either its right or wrong to kill animals". If a rabid dog attacks your wife, we can all agree its right to kill it. If we're hungry for chicken, and most of us are..just ask Col Sanders..most of us think it's right to kill a chicken. When a bear is shot by a celebrity in a pen from the safety of a tree stand in order to have his picture taken with his kill, it's wrong to kill the animal. When animals are killed for no useful purpose, it is always wrong. Now, if CarolC and Jack and the rest think there is a useful purpose, they'll go on doing it, or condoning doing it anyway. If the purpose is stated as "it's for the meat", then that certainly is bullshit. If the purpose stated is to allow the cod to reestablish, that at least is debatable, although almost all science agrees that the seals don't have that kind of impact.
No argument that humans have done a lousy job of stewardship of the planet's resources, but scapegoating one species for our destruction of another is not an answer.
And, all respect to the fairness of most of your views, Peace, I and others have the right to criticize and voice our opinions on anything we please, in or outside of Canada. I believe that my arguments in this thread have been for the most part rational and reserved. I have tried to take the opposition's viewpoint into consideration, and have learned something from the exchange.
CarolC, deer are killed and processed, primarily for the meat, by individual hunters. As I have said before, I have nothing against either hunting or meat eating.