Kaitlin, excellent story. Though seal hunting is a livlihood for many Newfoundlanders, the other aspect of the hunt is to control seals who indiscriminately take a single bite out of a Cod and killing it,(a cod may carry 50,000 eggs that will never see life) thus contributing to the decline of of the cod stocks come fishing season. Again, two sides to a single story (seal Hunt) no one ever thinks about. Culling the seals save Cod, culling seals provides a living to a centuries old tradition, and cod fishing provides a livlihood to a dying industry. Without both, oil exploration is a new lifeline to Newfoundlanders who would rather be fishing, because Newfoundlanders know oil derricks and the resulting pollution and activity may result in the elimination of both species one day.
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at 22:14 on January 13th, 2008
Kaitlin, excellent story. Though seal hunting is a livlihood for many Newfoundlanders, the other aspect of the hunt is to control seals who indiscriminately take a single bite out of a Cod and killing it,(a cod may carry 50,000 eggs that will never see life) thus contributing to the decline of of the cod stocks come fishing season. Again, two sides to a single story (seal Hunt) no one ever thinks about. Culling the seals save Cod, culling seals provides a living to a centuries old tradition, and cod fishing provides a livlihood to a dying industry. Without both, oil exploration is a new lifeline to Newfoundlanders who would rather be fishing, because Newfoundlanders know oil derricks and the resulting pollution and activity may result in the elimination of both species one day.