Seals Tremble Waiting Canadian Slaughter

Canadian fishermen feel that the seals unreasonably compete for fish. The seals feel much the same way about the fishermen but don't have access to high tech weaponry - harpoons and skinning knives and such. Moreover, as greed has caused Canadian fishermen to drive certain populations of fish (most famously Newfoundland cod, but also other species such as salmon) to near extinction, one might think the seals have a point.
Press Release from The Humane Society

Independent journalists, scientists, and parliamentarians who observe the hunt each year continue to report unacceptable levels of cruelty, including the dragging of conscious seals across the ice with boat hooks, shooting seals and leaving them to suffer in agony, and stockpiling dead and dying animals. A recent veterinary report concluded that up to 42 percent of the seals studied at the hunt were likely skinned while alive and conscious.