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The sealing boats go out again in 1987
Those beseeching eyes were impossible to avoid. In the 1970s images of fuzzy white seal pups were everywhere as activists fought to end the seal hunt in Canada. Seals have been harvested for generations on the floes of the Atlantic coast, but concerns about killing methods and conserving the herd virtually ended the practice in the 1980s. The threat of too many cod-eating seals resurrected the hunt, and today anti-cruelty activists monitor an industry that's at its strongest in decades.
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: March 20, 1987
Guest(s): Tom Rideout, Mark Small
Host: Knowlton Nash
Reporter: Kathryn Wright
Duration: 2:29
Last updated: March 19, 2013
Page consulted on March 19, 2013
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