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Despite international condemnation, the commercial hunt for Canadian seal pups began on March 24, across the ice floes of eastern Canada, and IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare - www.ifaw.org) is out on the ice to monitor sealing activity and document hunting violations.
The hunt, which is heavily subsidized by the Canadian government, is expected to take as many as 350,000 seals over the next few weeks. Seals may be killed once they begin to moult their fluffy white coats - as young as 12 days old. Ninety-five percent of the seals killed in the hunt are under three months of age.
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