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==History==
==Traditional Inuit seal hunt==
==Modern sealing==
===Canada===
=====Regulations=====
*The minimum caliber of rifle and minimum bullet velocity that can be used;
And the following stipulations:
*“Every person who strikes a seal with a club or hakapik shall strike the seal on the forehead until its skull has been crushed”;
*“No person shall commence to skin or bleed a seal until the seal is dead”;
*“Every person who fishes for seals for personal or commercial use shall land the pelt or the carcass of the seal”;
=====Export=====
===Greenland===
===Namibia===
===Norway===
The Norwegian sealing season runs from January to September.
===Russia===
==The sealing debate==
Due to Canada's comparatively large size of seal hunt, Canada has become the center of the sealing debate.
===Cruelty to animals===
===Ecological feasibility===
===Objections to fur===
===Economic impact===
===The seal hunt as a cull===
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans have responded that there is no connection between the annual seal harvest and the cod fishery, and that the seal hunt is "established on sound conservation principles".
Sealing interests are however calling for photographers, whose presence is already severely restricted and who have been attacked by sealers, to be banned from recording the hunt altogether.
For the 2001 sealing season Norwegian vessels were allocated hunt quotas of 15,000 adult harp seals on the West Ice (2 non-suckling pups deemed equal to 1 adult) and 5,000 adult harp seals on the East Ice (2.5 non-suckling pups deemed equal to 1 adult).
Seal meat from the hunt was previously sold as food to fur farms but this has not occurred for the last few years as the farms are importing cheaper dried meat from Germany, many seal carcasses being left to rot near processing plants as a result.
Seal oil was often used as lamp fuel, lubricating and cooking oil, for processing such materials as leather and jute, as a constituent of soap, and as the liquid base for red ochre paint.
Sealhunt protests have recently been organized in a number of countries but attendance was small in comparison to the protest's heyday in the early 1980s.
Sealhunting advocates are often critical of the involvement of celebrities, on the grounds that hunters depend on the seals for their livelihood, while the anti-hunting celebrities have ample incomes.
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