*which the hunt by landsmen ‘e Page 8, The Herald, Tuesday, March 10, 1991 Are You immunized! were the kinds of buttans given out by the Skeena Health Unit onthe stage to youngsters wha were happy they were free for the taking. Land-based hunters barred from sealing CHARLOTTETOWN (CP) — Landamen were barred fram the rest of the Gulf of St. Lawrence seal hunt Monday night after fisheries officials reported instances of wasteful harvesting and confessed doubts about the Imumaneness of some of the killing. ‘ ' Troublesome ice con- ditiona on the northern P.E.I. coast combined with be inexperience of many hunters left authorities unable “to control the thing,” said Bill Murphy, area fisheries manager. A meeting was scheduled with leaders of the 40 Island hunting teams this afternoon to discuss conditions under parents unless further action is decided upon, will be off the northeast coast of New Brunswick, where two large ' sealing ships are working a herd of 50,000 seals which have drifted there from near the Magdalen Islands. The last time Murphy sald he recalled the hunt being brought to a premature end was in 1969. That was the last year significant numbers of seals last drifted to the shores of P.E.I. Hunters, working the remaining 10,000 pups allotted landsmen, kilted about 2,900 Monday. The herd contained an estimated 50,000 «seals, < “The band of ice and slush nudged against the coast of the national park was a tough challenge for hunters who had to use their small boats as bridges between ice patches on their way from officer and a fisheries officer while they filmed sealers in the afternoon. The subsequently filed charges against the officers for assault and Feltz said they were considering charges of theft because of the seizure of film. - Murphy said the fisheries department would not lay charges against people whe were on land even though they were within a half nautical mile of the seals, Fisheries regulations forbid unauthorized persons to come near the hunters. “There was uncertainty about the application of regulations," he said, It was later determined that no one filming or photographing the hunt from: land should be bothered by authorities. However, there was little doubt the crews were hun- ting with lite or no ex- might be resumed, Murphy said in an interview. Protesters, after a meeting with supporters Monday night, planned to Children broyght their parents; and Y? Annual brought their chijdren to the Sclence Fair in the weekend. attend that meeting as well, perience and being led by pup to pup. but were not invited to be men whohadnol taken part = Butthe hunt asunhindered =O, a arig Ciffollllli, Yvonne from a great height It does not participants. in a hunt for several years, by protesters, who other F ily break Murphy also admitted that he said. than photographing and orcier and Michelle Ciffollilli necessarily break. some fisheries officers mis- “It’s not just that the seals filming the activity along © Show that when an egg is dropped applied regulations Monday are belng killed in an withother spectators, stayed " Calgery 30000 Stew 7 when they seized film froma inhumane fashion" said mostly in Charlottetown to Edmonton of fgoo.o Por ‘Mardy “ number of observers stan- Murphy, who cealended that organize a strategy for the WEATHER Caallegar 10 -4000.0 Comox n cing on the beach bordering instances of sufferingamong remainder of the hunt. 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