Canadian sealers enjoy hacking baby seals to death with a hakapik, a heavy wooden club with a hammer head and metal hook on the end, because they want to punish the seals for stealing their fish. They forget that long before the seal hunt, cod were so abundant you could “walk across their backs”. Seals selectively eat the weak and diseased fish thus improving the stocks and preventing the spread of epidemics. In 2008 public outcry banned the hakapik and insisted seals bleed for a minute before skinning.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)