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Ghost of seal hunt haunts Canadian trucker blockades over COVID-19 testing

February 12, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Former seal hunt defender Brian Peckford,  79,  makes political last stand at expense of cattle,  pigs,  & public health OTTAWA, Canada––Canadian cattle and pigs fed grain from the United States are going hungry.  Some cattle and pigs en route from Canada to finishing and slaughter in the U.S. may be stuck aboard trucks. Entering a […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Marine life, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Brian Mulroney, Brian Peckford, Joey Smallwood, John Crosbie, Maggie Parkhill, Merritt Clifton, Newfoundland, Robin Levinson-King

The best news of 2021 for North Atlantic seals, whales, & dolphins

October 3, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Young Newfoundlanders rescue seven stranded pilot whales near scene of “A Whale For The Killing” EMBREE, Newfoundland––The best news in 2021 both for harp seals and gray seals in Atlantic Canada and for pilot whales and Atlantic white-sided dolphins in the Faroe Islands,  2,000 miles east across the North Atlantic,  might in the long run […]

Filed Under: Denmark, Europe, Faroe Islands, Feature Home Bottom, Marine life, Scandinavia, Seals, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Farley Mowat, Faroe Islands, Meg Roberts, Merritt Clifton, Mitchell Gillingham, Olavur Sjurdarberg, Ryan Collier, Ryan Knot

Complaining that seals cause “stress,” farm cuts gills from salmon alive

February 14, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

John Robins:  “Salmon farming is cruel,  plain and simple.”              STORNOWAY,  Scotland––The Danish-owned Scottish Salmon Company,  just three weeks after complaining to media about seal attacks “stressing” farmed Atlantic salmon near Portree on Skye,  has been exposed in undercover video obtained by Animal Equality U.K. for allegedly allowing routine cruelty in processing on a scale […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, United Kingdom, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Abigail Penny, John A. MacInnes, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton

Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads

February 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act brought law to save seals in Scottish waters             EDINBURGH,  Scotland––Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads,  posted by Animal Concern Scotland on February 1,  2021. The reward is specifically for information leading to the first successful prosecution under a new Scottish seal protection law,  adopted on […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Bakkafrost, Bernadette Jordan, Edward Kolodziej, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Tavish Scott, Zhenyu Tian

Prince Charles, sea lice, & why salmon farming stinks

July 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Norwegian investors hope to delouse the salmon industry with new facility in Maryland BALTIMORE, Maryland––Salmon farming stinks. Business media worldwide have for weeks failed to mention that fact in amplifying a July 7,  2020 announcement that the Norwegian firm AquaCon plans to build a $300 million land-based salmon farm on the eastern shore of Chesapeake […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Paal Haldorsen, Prince Charles, Rob Edwards, Yonathan Zohar

Scotland to stop shooting seals to save salmon farm profits––but not until 2021

June 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

50-year effort by Scottish seal defenders––but Humane Society of the U.S. blasts out media releases claiming credit DUMBARTON,  Scotland––Culminating a half century of effort by the Save Our Seals Fund,  and Animal Concern Scotland,  led for decades by John Robins of both organizations,  the Scottish Parliament on June 17,  2020 ratified a new Animals & Wildlife […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & standards, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Staniford, John Robins, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Severin Carrell

COVID-19 brings no net gains for marine life––except in Iceland

April 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“There is no market,”  but fish,  shellfish,  seals,  & whales are all still hunted WESTERLY,  Rhode Island;  HONOLULU,  Hawaii;  REYKJAVIK, Iceland––Restaurant closures ordered because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have economically crippled the U.S. commercial fishing industry from Long Island Sound to Hawaii,  and have hit the fishing industry worldwide,  but––except in Iceland,  where a case […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Crustaceans, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Iceland, Marine life, Meat issues, Namibia, Norway, Scandinavia, Seals, Sub-Saharan, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Aristos Georgiou, Cynthia Drummond, Joe Roman, Kristján Loftsson, Merritt Clifton, Rick Daysog

Wolves, grey whales, & sea lions targeted to preserve meat-getting traditions

April 8, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Cultural demand for killing wildlife is much stronger than economic interest             SEATTLE––The good news for wolves,  grey whales,  and California sea lions in the Pacific Northwest is that all three once-endangered predators,  now long off the U.S. endangered species list,  are reclaiming small niches in habitat that for millennia they dominated,  before human activity––especially […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Predators, Seals, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Ben Maletzke, Evan Bush, Gillian Flaccus, Joel Kretz, Lynda V. Mapes, Merritt Clifton, Robert Wielgus, Shaun Clements

U.K.: “Nation of animal lovers” or of wildlife assassins?

February 9, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Royal SPCA,  Royal Society for the Protection of Birds,  et al disregard & even promote cruelty on a shocking scale             LONDON,  U.K.––The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of Great Britain,  the world’s oldest western-style animal advocacy organization,  founded in 1824 and granted a royal charter in 1840 by Queen Victoria,  wants […]

Filed Under: Activism, Adaptive species, Animal rights & welfare, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Fish, Hunting & trapping, Isles, Marine life, Religion & philosophy, Scotland, Seals, United Kingdom, Urban wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Fiona Harvey, Jason Endfield, John Robins, Larysa Switlyk, Merritt Clifton, Nicola Sturgeon

Why killing predators won’t bring back the salmon

February 5, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Gulls join sea lions,  seals,  & cormorants in the crosshairs             VICTORIA,  British Columbia;  PORTLAND, Oregon––Blaming seals and sea lions for declining salmon stocks,  Pacific Balance Pinniped Society founder Thomas Sewid is frustrated these days because,  Sewid posted to Facebook on January 23,  2019,  “My firearm possession and acquisition license is expired.  I cannot hunt […]

Filed Under: Canada, Conservation, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Marine life, Meat issues, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Bob Sallinger, Brenda Spence, Gillian Flaccus, Gord Jones, Jaime Pinkham, Jonathan Wilkinson, Merritt Clifton, Thomas Sewid

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