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Drown and Out
Baby seals drown from melting ice as Canada hunt begins |
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04 Apr 2007 |
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| Drown and Out Baby seals drown from melting ice as Canada hunt begins Pop an antidepressant before reading this: Canada has reduced this year's quota for its annual harp seal hunt by 20 percent, to a mere 270,000 -- not because of pressure from conservationists and animal activists, but because thousands of baby seals have already fallen through melting ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and drowned. ... |
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