Why do poeple kill seals?

Answer 1

For the same reasons mankind and every other kind of predator "slaughter" their prey: to feed themselves. In this case, with the meat, of course, but also by selling the skin and the blubber and get some income to feed their family. An average sealer would get around 5 000$ to 6 000$ each season. It might seems little, but sealers are not rich people and it means about 20% of their annual income.

There's also a question of keeping the balance in the ecosystem. If the seal populations are not controlled, there will be no fish left in the sea because they don't have much other predators beside a few killer whales and sharks.

Answer 2

Seals are an economic resource. The meat is edible, and some kinds of seals have valuable fur as well. There are people who make their living by hunting seals. If they did not hunt seals they would have to find other employment, and there is a lot of unemployment in the world today.

Answer 3

The large seal hunt that most people read about is done MAINLY to help control the seal population, so that the fishing industry can stay afloat.

Additional Information: The most commercial product from the seal is the fur and the skin, both used to make clothing. But some of the meat is sold to the local communities, and shipped to Taiwan, and South Korea, while the oil is used in those, so called "fish oil supplements" people buy in health food stores. For more details, please see the sites listed below.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

A seal skin coat is much warmer than a coat made from most other material of the same weight.

Answer 6

They actually club them (ouch) to make coats, boots,etc. This is so mean. Donate and help stop this.

Answer 7

Seals are eaten by First Peoples of Canada and some of the meat is sold for pet food and some is used to make seal oil which is made into fish oil supplements.