Q&A: Seal hunting adventure holidays – anyone know if it’s legal?
Question by Diarmid: Seal hunting adventure holidays – anyone know if it’s legal?
Hi, somebody has proposed to take me on a seal hunting adventure holiday off the coast of Greenland. I was just wondering if this is legal. I’m not really interested in your opinion on the subject, that can be voiced elsewhere, I’d simply like to know if anyone has any experience of seal hunting or knowledge of the law concerning the hunting of seals. As far as I’m aware they’re not an endangered species.
Best answer:
Answer by Willy
It’s not illegal. Just so you’re aware its called clubbing seals. You smack them on top of the head with a bat when they poke up through the ice. Or I guess you could shoot them when they are laid out on the ice.
What do you think? Answer below!
Here are the rules for hunting seals:
“Every person who strikes a seal with a club or hakapik shall strike the seal on the forehead until its skull has been crushed”;
“No person shall commence to skin or bleed a seal until the seal is dead”;
“[A] seal is dead when it has a glassy-eyed, staring appearance and exhibits no blinking reflex when its eye is touched while it is in a relaxed condition”;
How could you live with yourself???
You can check this out, looks legal
Links attached
Since then, a number of nations have outlawed the hunting of seals and other marine mammals. Today, commercial sealing is conducted by only five nations: Greenland, Namibia, Norway, Russia, and Canada. The United States, which had formerly been heavily involved in the sealing industry, now maintains a complete ban on the commercial hunting of marine mammals, however, indigenous peoples are allowed to hunt a small number of seals each year.[7]
Seal hunting – Destination East Greenland – http://www.eastgreenland.com
The Greenland seals do not breed in Greenland and it is far from the Greenlandic
hunting tradition to hunt baby seals, which do not carry much meat. …
eastgreenland.com/database.asp?lang=eng&num=236
No hunting on sucking seal pups in Greenland
In Greenland, the seal hunt is based on sustainability and therefore there is no
reason at all for not buying fur coats made of sealskin or other seal …
http://www.nanoq.gl/English/Sustainable_use/ Nyheder/No_hunting_on_sucking_seal_pups.aspx
http://www.answers.com/topic/seal-hunting