Seal Clubbing in Namibia update
Clubbing of 80 000 nursing baby, suckling on mothers milk (non-fishing eating) seal pups started on Sunday, July 1, and will continue for the next 139 days. This will apply for a 3yr rolling quota. Namibia plans a total extinction of the Cape fur seals in Namibia, clearly pointing out over and over again, that seals consume 900 000 tonnes of fish and the fishing industry only lands between 500 000 and 600 000 tonnes. Whilst the seals do not cause Namibia's fisheries to collapse, clearly Namibia now believes for fisheries to get back to harvesting. Even stranger, the quota is 90% pup based who as nursing pups still suckling on mothers milk, pose no threat to fish consumption, whilst all other age groups of fish-eating seals are exempt, including all breeding females. Namibia and its sealers will continue to allow breeding cows to mate, raise their baby for 7-months, whilst consuming fish to then harvest them, to protect fish stocks. So when will Namibia stop. Never, because with this banana republic logic, seals will go the same way as Namibia's fisheries - down, down, down.
For the Seals Francois Hugo Seal Alert-SA
http://www.sealalertsa.net/index1.htm
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