Thick ice hinders Canada's controversial seal hunt

[ben_meyers]

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island (Reuters) - Canada's annual seal hunt, which the government promised would be more humane this year, cranked up slowly on Friday because of thick ice.

The government is allowing hunters to kill up to 275,000 young harp seals on the ice floes off Eastern Canada, but only three had been reported killed on the first morning of the hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

"It's a very slow start," said Phil Jenkins, spokesman for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, noting that sealing boats were finding it difficult to get to the herds because of thick ice.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKN2839912920080328

[GliderGuider]

1. Imagine my sorrow and distress.

Good luck to the seals.

[mikita]

5. seconded n/t

[Dead_Parrot]

2. Awww, poor murderous fuckers nt.

[jpak]

3. ummm...wind puts the "pack" in pack ice - relatively thin ice can be transformed

into formidable packs by wind - and it doesn't take much ice to stop a fishing vessel.

But then again Global Warming is a Fraud...

[texastoast]

4. I'm apparently pretty mean this week so I must say

Has it knocked any holes in the boats yet?

[tom_paine]

6. Global Warming's a Fraud! There's thick ice this year in Charlottetown!

:party:

:rofl:

[depakid]

8. We laugh, but some people actually think this way

[Nihil]

7. Life's a real bitch at times isn't it?

I hope they suddenly find some *really* thin ice ... oops ... how sad ...

Screw 'em.

(And yes, for our resident Canadian defenders, I say the same to people
who defend veal farms too.)