Farley Mowat Continues to Shadow Sealing Ships


	Farley Mowat Continues to Shadow Sealing Ships

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4-11-2008 3:14 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d6ad725a-99d9-4377-8845-4689e41778b2/C1C03E9A-DAB1-4595-BDCF-9E3B2A289535/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080410_1.html" href="http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080410_1.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.seashepherd.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080410_1.html"><P>The sealers of the Magdalen Islands are not having a very good year.  Four of them have died in a tragic accident when the Coast Guard Icebreaker <STRONG><EM>Sir  William Alexander</EM></STRONG> caused the sealing vessel they were towing to  capsize. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080410_1.html"><P> So far they have killed 3100  seals, far fewer than normal and they are having a difficult time navigating  their unsuitable vessels through thick ice and thicker fog. “This is an  unusually low number for this time of year,” said Phil Jenkins of the  Department of Fisheries and Oceans.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080410_1.html"><P>      The radio patter has sealers  sounding disheartened and they are talking about going home and calling it  quits for the year, and that translates into good news for the seals. The Newfoundland sealers  were scheduled to hit the ice on the 11th of April but they have  been set back a day to the 12th of April. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080410_1.html">The Canadian government has once again  threatened the crew of the <STRONG><EM>Farley Mowat</EM></STRONG> with arrest and has  demanded that the ship leaves Canadian waters.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C1C03E9A-DAB1-4595-BDCF-9E3B2A289535/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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