Overfishing: Oceans Are Dying
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| The Drowning of the Ice Babies |
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| Written by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society | |||
| Wednesday, 03 March 2010 06:27 | |||
There are two extremely frustrating issues that I am very much at odds with my government in Canada. The first is the ridiculously stubborn position that the Canadian government continues to hold with regard to the slaughter of seals. The second is the willfully arrogant and ecologically ignorant position that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has taken on the issue of global warming and climate change. In short, the government thinks there’s a never ending renewable population of harp seals to sacrifice to the Newfoundland and Magdalene Island neo-barbarians in return for their continued political support to keep his government in power, so that he can continue to do his part to destroy our planet with such mega projects as the Alberta Tar Sands and increasing greenhouse gas emissions. These two issues have now come together this month. The ice that supports the harp seal nurseries is simply not where it is supposed to be this year. "It's been an unusual year this year, to the point that there is no ice. There have been high temperatures, high winds, and as a result we have very little ice," said Dan Frampton, the Coast Guard's supervisor of ice operations. "By this time of year, pack ice is usually down to the St. John's area." (In Newfoundland) Frampton said icebreakers have been idle because there's no pack ice in the Strait of Belle Isle between Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula and southern Labrador, as well as in the Gulf of St. Lawrence or further north off central Labrador. "The Northeast coast [of Newfoundland] is wide open," Frampton said. Frampton says pack ice usually forms during January and February. He said even if temperatures drop in March it's unlikely that ice conditions will change significantly this year.... Source: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society 
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