Telling the truth about seal hunting
But the income generated by the commercial seal hunt doesn't go as far as the Canadian government would like you to think: it accounts for less than 1% of Newfoundland's GDP - an average of only $1,000 per sealer.
The seals are slaughtered in the most inhumane fashion during the hunt - routinely clubbed or shot and left to suffer on the ice, then dragged over the side of boats with sharpened metal hooks. Some are even skinned alive.
