FFAW-Unifor, Fish, Food and Allied Workers (2022) Film: Sealing our fate - An Ocean of hypocrisy. [Films/Infographics]
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Fish harvesters are not ravaging our fishery and destroying our ocean ecosystem – seals are. Our ocean ecosystem is in crisis. An emergency of catastrophic proportions caused by the out-of-control growth of seal populations, and the Government of Canada is turning a blind eye. It prefers to pander to animal rights groups and ignore the disaster that is devastating our oceans. Seals are at the top of our ocean’s food chain with very few natural enemies. They are ravaging fish stocks, such as Atlantic cod and capelin. Our historically sustainable and humane seal hunt has been publicly – and inaccurately – persecuted by the animal rights movement since the 1960s. As a result, the seal hunt has declined steadily in the decades since. The public campaign by animal rights groups has drawn support from individuals with no understanding of the traditional and sustainable nature of the seal hunt. They’ve had the wool pulled over their eyes while the real devastation continues to occur beneath the ocean’s surface. But unlike African bush elephants, one-horned rhinos, and right whales, seals are not a species under threat. Harp seals are the most abundant marine mammal in Canada’s north.
| Item Type: | Films/Infographics |
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| Keywords: | Film, Fish Harvesting, Seals, Marine Ecosystems, Canada, Food Chain, Cod, Capelin, Threatened Species, Marine Mammals |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Jeeva ICSF Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2022 11:20 |
| Last Modified: | 13 May 2022 11:20 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/13655 |
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