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Activists angry at being caught on tape
Seen in documentary ignoring dying seal for more than an hour
Mike De Souza, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Monday, March 05, 2007

Animal rights activists are outraged they were caught on tape ignoring a dying seal for more than an hour and featured in a documentary on Canada's commercial seal hunt, Quebec filmmaker Raoul Jomphe said.

He said the activists were filming a promotional segment for a fundraising campaign when the incident occurred.

"She was really mad at me," said Mr. Jomphe.

That made him question her tactics as he put together his documentary, which examines the annual spring hunt in Atlantic Canada.

"I find it to be hypocritical," said Mr. Jomphe, after a special screening of the movie -- Phoques, le film (Seals, the movie) -- last week at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

In the documentary -- which is scheduled to air later this month on the CBC's French-language all-news network, RDI, and Atlantic Radio-Canada stations -- the animal rights activists pulled the dying seal out of the water as it tried to escape, and continued filming their promotional video. It is not known how the seal was wounded.

"If I had been on the ice with my family and kids, I would have told them to turn around, and I would have killed the seal myself, because it was disturbing for me to see that," Mr. Jomphe said.

Ms. Aldworth insisted she didn't want the animal to suffer.

"I asked somebody to pull the seal out, because at that point I was thinking there might be a chance of getting the seal back to land," Ms. Aldworth said in the documentary. "If this seal could still crawl, an hour later, could still swim, maybe there was a chance we could bring the seal back to the Atlantic Veterinary College and save the seal."

Mr. Jomphe's documentary compares techniques used by the hunters to instantly kill their prey with graphic images of animals killed in slaughterhouses. It also focuses on resources and advertising revenues of animal protection groups in their ongoing campaigns.

"I knew that we had to look on the other side of the medallion to see what was happening," said Mr. Jomphe. "Groups focus on the part of the hunt, a weak percentage, that is not as well executed. ... It's an image that's exaggerated."

Federal officials have long maintained that the hunt is well-monitored and sustainable, with a seal population of nearly six million.

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