Canadian Biostitutes Lay Groundwork for Slaughter of Seals

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Canadian Biostitutes Lay Groundwork for Slaughter of

Seals

Wed, 25 May 2005 19:37:00 -0700

 

Canadian Biostitutes Lay Groundwork for Slaughter of

Seals

 

The Canadian Department of Fisheries and

Oceans has announced that despite the slaughter of

more than one million harp seals over the last three

years, the harp seal population continues to grow.

 

Biologists employed by the Canadian

Department of Fisheries and Oceans have announced that

the population is now 5.9 million seals up from 5.5

million in 2000.

 

“The current harvest (slaughter) doesn't

appear to be having a hugely detrimental effect on the

population, " said Gary Stenson of the federal

Fisheries and Oceans Department.

 

Canada intends to continue to promote

large-scale killing of seals until the population

falls to 3.85 million.

 

Canadian officials did not explain how they arrived at

the population figures. Harp seal expert, Dr. David

Lavigne said, " They have killed far more animals that

they thought the population could sustain, we've had

environmental problems on top of that ... (so) why is

the number so high? "

 

“It underscores a point we've made on

numerous occasions -- there is a considerable amount

of uncertainty in estimates of populations, " Lavigne

told Reuters,

 

Commenting on Newfoundland’s VOCM Radio on May 25,

Captain Paul Watson said, “I place no stock in the

DFO’s population figures. These are the same people

who said that cod fish populations were healthy up to

the day the cod fishery collapsed. These scientists

are hired whores; they are not biologists but

biostitutes.”

 

Captain Watson said that the method used to determine

seal populations is “eyeball estimates” primarily from

sealers.

 

“I was out there for two months this year,” said

Captain Watson. “And I can tell you that there are not

six million seals out there. John Efford was saying

there were six million seals five years ago and this

seems to be the official number every year. I find it

interesting that Efford uses the number six million at

the same time he states that we need a final solution

to the seal problem.”

 

In 2003, the DFO predicted a population of 4.7 million

and now it is up to 5.9 million despite the fact that

over a million seals have been slaughtered and ice

conditions and storms have taken the lives of tens of

thousands of additional seals.

 

“Where are these figures coming from?” Said Captain

Watson. “I’ll tell you where they are coming from.

These estimates are arrived at politically and rubber

stamped by the paid whores of science on the payroll

of the DFO.”

 

Captain Watson also told the people of Newfoundland

and Labrador courtesy of VOCM radio that more seals

were needed and not less. “There was no shortage of

cod before the arrival of Europeans and tens of

millions of seals were here. Why? Because the seals

and the cod are part of a complex ecological system

whereby the seals limited the species that prey upon

young cod. Lower seal populations and you increase the

population of fish predators that prey upon cod.

Additionally we must not forget that it was the

factory drag trawlers that annually decimated the cod

populations and drove the fishery to commercial

extinction.”

 

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is promoting a

worldwide boycott of Canadian fish products in an

effort to bring economic pressure to bear on the

Canadian fishing industry and the Canadian government

to end the bloody slaughter of seals.

 

Canada intends to announce a new kill

quota for 2006 before the end of the year. The

groundwork is being laid now to make that quota even

larger than the average of 350,000 killed each year

over the last three years.

 

“I will not be surprised to see the quota set between

400,000 and a half a million seals a year, “Said

Captain Watson. “Canada wants these seals wasted, they

want them gone and obliterated. This is a policy of

specicide and has nothing to do with wildlife

management and everything to do with eliminating the

seal from the marine eco-system for the simple reason

that ignorant fishermen believe they are a threat to

the cod and these fishermen vote and the seals do

not.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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