seal-hunter

Hunts marine mammals

A seal-hunter is someone who hunts seals, typically for their fur, blubber, or meat.

The term applies both to indigenous peoples who have hunted seals for subsistence for millennia and to commercial hunters in industries that became controversial for animal welfare concerns: The seal-hunters set out across the ice at dawn.

methods

harpoon

Barbed spear for whales

  • clubOrganization with membership
  • rifleLong-barreled shoulder weapon
  • kayakEnclosed single-person watercraft

stalking · ambush · decoy · net · snare · skinning · butchering · flensing · tracking · camp

controversy

activist

Vigorous cause champion

  • GreenpeaceEnvironmental activism organization
  • boycottOrganized economic protest
  • banOfficial restriction on something

protest · cruelty · ethics · welfare · conservation · quota · regulation · campaign · legislation · exemption

occupation

trapper

One who catches animals

harvester · commercial · traditional · seasonal · quota · license · catch · expedition · vessel · income

arctic

tundra

Frigid treeless biome

Greenland · Newfoundland · Canada · Norway · Russia · Alaska · expedition · survival · harsh · remote

indigenous

Inuit

Arctic indigenous people

traditional · ancestral · cultural · Arctic · community · elder · knowledge · ceremony · survival · heritage

Opposites
role in relation to seals

seal-huntermarine biologist

Studies sea life professionally

stance on seal hunting

seal-hunterBrigitte Bardot

type of marine hunter

seal-hunterwhaler

Cetacean hunting vessel

Family

seal, hunter, seals, sealing, sealed, sealer, sealers, hunt, hunts

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