Remarks on Eskimo Sealing and the Harp Seal Controversy

Authors

  • Don Charles Foote

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3302

Keywords:

Glaciation

Abstract

Considers the importance of the seal harvest to Eskimos of Alaska, Canada and Greenland and gives statistics on catches, prices, incomes and costs of modernization of the seal-hunting industry. The catastrophic decline of sealskin prices and buyers boycott beginning 1965 as a result of the controversy over killing methods of harp seal pups has destroyed a viable industry badly needed in an economically depressed region. Eskimos seldom encounter harp seal pups, and use humane killing methods.

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Published

1967-01-01