Seal boat destroyed
This entry was posted on 4/20/2007 9:24 PM and is filed under Animal News.
PORT AU CHOIX, NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA -- A 65-foot boat used by a seal-hunting crew burned and sank at the dock on April 13, according to a April 17 press release from the North American Animal Liberation Press Office (NAALPO).
According to the release, the ship was used by Newfoundlander Ben Gould and his crew, "who club baby seals to death" -- who had, in fact, "just returned from killing infant seals and was preparing to sail again to kill more" when the boat caught fire and was destroyed at approximately 3 p.m. A criminal investigation is ongoing into the incident; no one has yet been charged, nor anyone has taken credit for the attack. No one was injured.
The NAALPO charges that the Canadian government, which is currently headed by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, "has continued to subsidize the killing of 275,0000 surviving seals. After weeks of mass drownings, as baby seals slipped from melting, crumbling and broken ice in the cold blackness of the Atlantic, the merciless clubs of Canada's barbaric sealers began once again on April 2nd to smash in the fragile skulls of defenseless seal pups. This is a massacre, an attempt to exterminate a species."
"It is obvious that the vessel was a target of opportunity," the press release quotes Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as saying. "Boats just don't catch fire in the middle of the night by accident. I am happy to hear that no one was injured. That would have been a tragedy, but this event is nothing if not good news for the seals. Many lives will be spared because of this sinking, and one less seal boat on the seas is an even better thing. Who ever did this is a hero as far as I'm concerned."
Dr. Jerry Vlasak, an NAALPO press officer and former Sea Shepherd board member, took a much harder line against the sealers than Watson in his comments on the attacks.
"The seals got a break; Ben Gould and his fellow seal killers will not get the chance to bludgeon any more baby seals, at least not this year," Dr. Vlasak said. "Sadly, Gould and his crew didn't go down with the ship, but hopefully we have not heard the last of the warriors who put him out of business this season."
Video footage and photographs of the seal kill are available from the NAALPO.
According to the release, the ship was used by Newfoundlander Ben Gould and his crew, "who club baby seals to death" -- who had, in fact, "just returned from killing infant seals and was preparing to sail again to kill more" when the boat caught fire and was destroyed at approximately 3 p.m. A criminal investigation is ongoing into the incident; no one has yet been charged, nor anyone has taken credit for the attack. No one was injured.
The NAALPO charges that the Canadian government, which is currently headed by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, "has continued to subsidize the killing of 275,0000 surviving seals. After weeks of mass drownings, as baby seals slipped from melting, crumbling and broken ice in the cold blackness of the Atlantic, the merciless clubs of Canada's barbaric sealers began once again on April 2nd to smash in the fragile skulls of defenseless seal pups. This is a massacre, an attempt to exterminate a species."
"It is obvious that the vessel was a target of opportunity," the press release quotes Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as saying. "Boats just don't catch fire in the middle of the night by accident. I am happy to hear that no one was injured. That would have been a tragedy, but this event is nothing if not good news for the seals. Many lives will be spared because of this sinking, and one less seal boat on the seas is an even better thing. Who ever did this is a hero as far as I'm concerned."
Dr. Jerry Vlasak, an NAALPO press officer and former Sea Shepherd board member, took a much harder line against the sealers than Watson in his comments on the attacks.
"The seals got a break; Ben Gould and his fellow seal killers will not get the chance to bludgeon any more baby seals, at least not this year," Dr. Vlasak said. "Sadly, Gould and his crew didn't go down with the ship, but hopefully we have not heard the last of the warriors who put him out of business this season."
Video footage and photographs of the seal kill are available from the NAALPO.
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