For centuries, pregnant harp seals have migrated from Greenland down the coast of Canada, stopping each spring to give birth on the ice floes off Newfoundland. And every year, the Canadian government funds a trade in which the baby seals are massacred by club-wielding sealers from the local fishing community while their pelts remain soft enough to sell on the international fur market. The commercial seal slaughter is not a subsistence activity for native peoples but an off-season fishing industry cash grab, and it accounts for less than 1 percent of Newfoundland's economy.

Over the last few years, the price of seal fur has finally started to plummet as international outrage against the seal slaughter rises. Russia – which imported 95% of Canadian seal pelts – has now joined the U.S., European Union, and Mexico in banning seal fur imports. This has led Newfoundland and national Canadian officials to seriously examine whether the slaughter should end.

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