Speaking of the Seal hunt, one of my pet subjects

1) The Canadian government is going to discontinue subsidies for the seal hunt.

2)Some people blame the seals for the low stocks of cod

3) The $ amount generated by the Canadian Atlantic Seal hut is aproximately the income generated for one year by two Mc Donalds outlets.

4) Harp seals are by no means endangered

5) Protester rent helicopters for $1,000s a day while the Hunters who are desperatly trying to find some way to earn some income, head to the ice in rusty old trawlers.

6) There are some who conjecture that the introduction of Viagra to the asian markets explains the huge drop by the Chinese in their demand for seal penis, a traditional aphrodesiac in Chinese Herbal medicine. (A friend of mine conjectures Vigra is just eaiser to swallow!)

7) The people who are seal hunting are not doing it because they think it is fun or because they are cruel.

Just a few seal harvest factoids.