"why are the people who are protesting the seal hunt not also protesting the deer hunt?"

Deer do not eat cod?

Do deer hunters gather in large groups then herd deer them then kill them in large numbers?
Do deer hunters kill off the young & not the adults?
Are the methods in hunting the same & does one have a better sporting chance than the other?

No, they also don't take the young & there are laws prohibiting the number one hunter can take per season & they make the taking of females into consideration too.

I don't see that we're comparing apples to apples in this comparsion.

Now if I had lobster traps & lived by the sea I'd take lobsters, I love them as much as I like beef, pork, lamb, chicken, fish & shellfish, I'm not big on veggies but I do like fruit. But I believe that lobsters shouldn't be taken at the rate they're allowed. Their length should be extended so that they have a fair chance of being able to spawn a few times 1st. Right now, at least in the US they're allowed to be taken just before they reach reproduction age, I may be wrong, if so please correct me. I'd say that there should be a consideration for fair play so that they have a better chance of increasing their population as well as their survival as a spiecies.
So I'd be for a change in the regs.

Is this same sense of fair play being allowed by the hunters as well as by law in the case of the harp seal? Inquiring minds would like to know.

The deer hunt is an individual pursuit, it's also not a commerical pursuit & is done generally by & for the benifit of the individual hunter. They take only a few per season & those that they take are regulated by age & sex.

Now when you compare this to the moose or elk hunt, you are also not comparing apples to apples. Lets agree to drop the deer thing.

Before WWI, the seal industry went into decline, it was no longer profitable to hunt by the methods in use at the time, What's changed since then?

I'm still not seeing the need for the mass hunting of the harp seal. Am I just not getting it or is there just not enough going for the hunters justification to hunt out the young pups for the bit of fur & meat.

Is the meat of the adult harp seal any better or worst that the meat from a pup?
I understand that the fur of the young whitecoat is the most disirable.

Barry