Poilievre calls opponents to seal cull ‘eco-nuts’ while suggesting killing more seals needed to curb rise in population and protect Atlantic salmon
says he would expand Canada’s seal hunt if he becomes prime minister, provoking condemnation from animal-welfare groups in Canada, the U.S. and Britain,Mr. Poilievre blamed opposition to the cull on “eco-nuts” in the United States and European Union and said killing more seals was needed to curb a rise in the seal population and protect Atlantic salmon, which he said were “being gobbled up by the excessive population of seals.
Animal-welfare groups questioned his assertion that harp seals were responsible for depleting the Atlantic salmon population, saying harp seals feed principally on capelin – an eight-to-10-inch long fish – and crustaceans such as crab and krill. Ms. Arden, an animal-welfare campaigner, said: “Expanding the seal hunt paints such a vile picture of us as a country.”
In 1992, Canada’s Atlantic cod fishery was closed after the collapse of Atlantic cod stocks, with some saying seals contributed to their decline.Ashley Byrne of PETA said the Conservative Leader was “delusional if he thinks there could ever be a market for skins from violently murdered seals.” Mr. Poilievre “has been really poorly briefed” about seals’ depleting salmon, she added. “Harp seals eat mostly crustaceans.”
But Prof. Marland, former director of communications at the Department of Fisheries, said he was confused why Mr. Poilievre had focused on the impact of seals on salmon, “because seals eat cod.”do eat some salmon, they face other pressures, including habitat degradation.
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