Hundreds of dead seals in Labrador

[irishspirit]

People on the north coast of Labrador say scores of dead seals have been washing ashore since early December.

A conservation officer with the area's Inuit government estimated late last week that hundreds of adult and young seals have died in the area between Hopedale and Makkovik this winter.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is testing the carcasses, but Nunatsiavut conservation officer Ian Winters said many people in the area believe DFO hasn't acted quickly enough.

"I think they should have been up here earlier, if you're asking me. A lot of people said the same thing. So, maybe it's not on top of their agenda," he said.
Usually at this time of year seals are on sea ice south of Hopedale, said Winters, but he said there is very little ice there now.
Last month, people in northern Labrador found the bodies of dead seal pups on the coast.


http://news.sympatico.cbc.ca/local/n...rador/8a0967ab

[TheCougarandEagle]

Thankyou for this. Trying to keep track myself daily of new news. However it is nice to know others are looking too. John

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Expecially a little confused that this happened in Canada and yet I know nothing about it. Obviously the news here is covering it up a bit.

[9eagle9]

I wonder if the Labrador seal deaths bear any similarity to those dying-dead seals on the coast of England that had those weird corkscrew wounds?

[Celine]

i have been to northern newfoundland... and could see Labrador, across the water...

i remember seeing LOTS of dead seals on the beaches...

i asked a local..why..?

They are dying of starvation...he said.

No whales to hunt them... they are over populated... no fish to feed them.

Consequences of the fishing industry..

[irishspirit]

Posted by TheCougarandEagle (here)
Thankyou for this. Trying to keep track myself daily of new news. However it is nice to know others are looking too. John

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Expecially a little confused that this happened in Canada and yet I know nothing about it. Obviously the news here is covering it up a bit.

I check daily and try to update the Birds falling from Sky thread, however, that is in the wrong section. It really needs to be in the news section of the forum.

[Celine]

this is NOT a rare happening...