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Seals and Sealing in Canada

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Fishery officers conduct at-sea boardings to ensure compliance with the Marine Mammal Regulations. Enforcement of the hunt is based on the utilization of air and surface platforms, as well as on the deployment of fishery officers and observers. Fishery officers conduct helicopter patrols of the seal hunt. Fishery officers inspect a club and a hakapik to ensure they are in accordance with regulations.
Fishery officers monitor hunting activities from aboard Canadian Coast Guard vessels. Harp seal herd in the waters of Atlantic Canada. Millions of harp seals on the ice floes off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Herd of migrating harp seals.


 
   
   

Last updated : 2005-03-23

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