主题：【文摘】让人心颤的实拍：一只海豹面对杀戮时的哭泣(组图) -- 船长阿道克

海豹睁着两只大眼睛，安静地趴在冰面上，此刻它还不知道，等待它的，将会是一场杀戮……

捕杀船来了,惨烈的一幕即将重演.........

猎杀方法很残忍

说起海豹，人们首先想到的是其温顺、可爱的样子以及光洁的皮毛。正因为如此，它成为不少人捕杀的对象。海豹毛皮曾是欧洲女士服装中的抢手货，而海豹温和的天性又使它们成为最容易猎取的大型野生哺乳动物。在加拿大，捕杀海豹是合法的，东部有约一万多户家庭以此为生，每年春天正是猎杀海豹的季节。

40年前，在动物保护者的努力下，许多欧洲妇女开始以穿用海豹毛皮为耻，最终迫使欧洲市场禁止了海豹毛皮贸易。然而，近年来渔民又想出了从海豹身上赚钱的门路，那就是所谓的海豹鞭市场。其猎取手段也更加残忍——活生生地将雄海豹的生殖器用斧头剁下，然后让它们在冰上慢慢死去！

惨绝人寰的杀戮竟是这样正式地开始了……

传统上，猎豹人只要走近海豹，用一根木棒或斧头当头一击，它们就会立即丧命。而许多猎杀者仅仅是在打昏海豹后，就用尖利的钢钩将海豹拖上船，活剥海豹皮。还有一些猎人，甩开母海豹，直接抢过它怀里的小海豹，敲死这个幼小生命后，马上剥皮。国际爱护动物基金会要求，海豹猎杀者在剥海豹皮之前必须进行简单的测试以确保海豹已经死亡。但实际情况是，很少有猎杀者实施这样的测试。

巨大的商业利益之下残留着血腥……

海豹是棵摇钱树

在加拿大东部纽芬兰省附近的大西洋海域内，海豹种群不仅健康而且数量繁多，大约在500万头左右。加拿大政府虽早在1942年就宣布把捕杀海豹的数量控制在每年1.5万头，但由于近年来世界海豹皮市场需求量大增，加拿大捕杀海豹数量又逐年回升。今年，政府制定的猎杀配额为31.95万头。近三年，加拿大猎杀了近100万头海豹。动物保护组织称，这意味着每出生３头海豹就有至少１头被杀。

杀戮者的背后是贪婪政客们的支持……

既然如此，为什么加拿大政府还要支持猎杀海豹呢？首先，海豹数量大，不属濒危物种。其次，海豹产业界和一些政客认为，近年来加拿大海域的鳕鱼产量连年下降。如果不猎杀海豹，鳕鱼的产量将继续下降，所以每年都下达猎杀格陵兰海豹的配额。然而，专家指出，鳕鱼储量下降，完全是因为人类的过度捕捞所致，海豹的数量并不会影响海岸鱼类的储量。今年，加拿大联邦海洋渔业部部长贺恩宣布的猎杀配额是：33.5万头海豹——有史以来最高的猎杀配额。

不幸“分配”到“猎杀配额”的海豹被捕猎者拖走……

猎杀海豹背后是巨大的利益驱动。据统计，2004年加拿大东海岸地区的商业海豹猎杀活动为政府贡献了1650万美元税收,2003年为约1300万美元，2002年为约2100万美元。

无情的拖迤留下长长的血迹……

产品并非很神奇

世界动物保护协会宣称“加拿大猎杀海豹活动是这个星球上最残忍和最大规模的捕猎活动!英美等国家的环保人士则呼吁本国政府抵制加拿大的商品，从而使加拿大政府十分被动。国际善待动物组织成员更以半裸体示威、模拟被剥去皮毛的海豹等方式，抗议加拿大政府准许猎人捕杀海豹。

血腥对于海豹来说难道只有无助……

为了应对国际社会的反对声浪，加拿大政府制定了一些关于捕杀海豹的具体规定，如禁止猎杀不满12天、皮毛仍为白色的小海豹等。但实际情况是，95％被猎杀的海豹仅12天到3个月大。小海豹游泳技能还很不娴熟，不愿离开冰面，所以更容易成为捕杀对象。

美国保护动物协会近日表示，如果今年加拿大的海豹猎捕达到令人无法接受的残忍程度，该组织就会呼吁人们联合抵制加拿大海产品。墨西哥参议院也正式谴责了加拿大的行动，并请求禁止任何的海豹毛皮产品进口到墨西哥。

其实，目前在加、美和欧洲市场上一般见不到海豹产品，因为有关宣传已经深入人心。反而是在亚洲市场上，海豹产品销路不错。专家称，拯救海豹首先是不再消费海豹产品。实际上，一些产品的功效根本不像商家吹嘘得那么神奇。

被猎杀海豹的血迹将大海染红，令人不忍……

血迹染红大海 猎杀海豹残忍过程全目击

4月12日，半个世纪以来加拿大规模最大的捕猎海豹行动正式打响。虽然今年加拿大政府坚持说，这次的捕猎行动将更为温和，但此举还是遭到了国际动物保护组织和环保组织的强烈抗议。

加拿大猎人们一年一度捕杀海豹的时间又开始了。2005年，猎杀活动就为加拿大带来了830万英镑的收入。今年，在加拿大圣劳伦斯海湾的冰川上，将有33.5万只小海豹惨死于猎人手中。这也是有史以来最高的猎杀配额。

屠戮结束后，剩下这一只海豹，望着满地的尸体，仿佛在诉说生命的无奈！

最后，只剩下一只海豹面对杀戮在哭泣？………………

答案是否定的；至少，在面对这组新闻图片的同时眼前是模糊的，但看得很清楚！……

• 再多说两句 --- 关于吃狗和钓鱼

想起了《雍正王朝》里小弘历对康熙的一句话。

无语

日本那个要恢复捕鲸的借口实在可笑。人的试图控制自然界平衡的行为总是被证明为无知和可笑的。

别弄耗子药呦

http://www.slate.com/id/2139026/

Why Do They Club Seals?

Can't they just shoot them?

By Daniel Engber

Posted Thursday, March 30, 2006, at 6:55 PM ET

Animal welfare activists clashed with seal-pup hunters in Canada this week, just a few days into the annual sealing season. A commercial vessel rammed an inflatable boat filled with protesters over the weekend, and hunters threw seal guts. Animal rights groups oppose the clubbing and shooting of young seals. Why do hunters club seals?

It's safe and easy, and it preserves the seal's valuable pelt. Federal laws in Canada give a sealer three ways to hunt his prey. He can shoot a seal with a rifle or shotgun—provided it's above a minimum caliber or gauge; he can break its head with a blunt club (like a baseball bat) that must be at least 2 feet long; or he can smash in its brains with something called a hakapik—a 4- or 5-foot wooden pole with a bent, metal spike affixed to the end.

In general, a sealer will use a hakapik or club if at all possible. That's because with these weapons, it's much easier to aim a blow directly at the seal pup's head. One swing from a hakapik will usually kill a pup right away. By law, you have to keep clubbing the seal in the forehead until you know for sure that it's dead. Sealers are supposed to "palpate" a pup's skull after they've clubbed it, to feel the caved-in bone beneath the skin and blubber. Or they can perform the "blink reflex" test, which consists of touching the seal's eyeball—if it blinks, you've got to club it again. (Few sealers actually perform these tests, though; some say they can feel the skull collapse as they make contact with their clubs.)

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A sealer chooses his weapon depending on the conditions of the hunt. You can only club a seal if you can climb down on to the ice next to it, but the ice isn't always sturdy enough to support a full-grown man and his hakapik. On the off-shore hunting grounds near Newfoundland, the seal pups tend to sit on small, unstable pieces of ice, so sealers must use rifles to kill them. On the other major hunting ground—the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the hunt began on Saturday—the hunters take advantage of larger floes to leave their vessels with clubs in hand. Conditions also vary from year to year: This season's warm weather has led to thin ice shelves in the gulf, so hunters have had to use their rifles much more than they typically would.

Why not just shoot the baby seals? When you're firing from a boat that's bobbing in the water, it's hard to get a good shot. And if you don't hit the seal in the head, you're less likely to kill it quickly. That means you'll either prolong its suffering (until you can get close enough to club it), or, worse, you'll give it the chance to shuffle off into the water with its pelt still on. Even if you killed a seal with a shot to the body, you'd cost yourself some money, since each bullet hole reduces the value of a pelt. Sealers also say that stray bullets can ricochet off the ice and injure bystanders.

让加拿大这种厚颜无耻的国家在国际上声名狼籍是我最乐意看到的结果，虽然它是真正的地大物博。

耗子也能跟鲸鱼比吗？小日本怎么不吃耗子肉呢，这个来源还多，杀都杀不完呀。