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Today's Entry: Friday, March 31, 2000 The Hunt Begins (1)  Earlier this week, as the seal hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
began in earnest, members of our team were there to observe it. The "landscape"
of the hunt is quite a different one this year. In an ordinary year in the
Gulf, the bulk of the killing is done with clubs and hakapiks, and hunters
use skidoos to get around the ice floes to kill and collect the animals.
This year, without stable ice floes on which to operate, they have been
operating primarily from boats, using rifles to kill the animals. While
less common in the Gulf, this is precisely the style of hunting employed
off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador where the bulk of the Canadian
hunt takes place.  本周早些时候，海豹的猎杀在圣劳伦斯海湾的东北部开始，我们国际爱护动物基金会的成员在那里目击了整个过程。由于今年那里没有坚固的浮冰，猎杀海豹的情景不同于往年 。今年主要使用船只、来福枪来实施猎杀工作；正常往年是用大头棒和专门猎杀用的 hakapiks工具，猎杀者们靠机动雪橇到达浮冰周围来猎杀和捡取海豹。 The ice pans are broken-up and slushy, and do not provide the  hunters
easy access to the seals. Moreover, as a result of the weather conditions
described in previous entries, there seems to be far fewer seals of a desirable
age around to hunt. Nevertheless, almost every day this week, there were
a number of boats hunting. 冰块是断裂解体和多雪泥的，猎杀者很难接近海豹。更为重要的是由于先前所说的天气原因，这里似乎很少有满意大小的海豹。然而本周几乎每天都有一定数量的捕猎船。 We have spent the last several days flying over top of these floating slaughterhouses, and I can tell you that while the weather conditions and the hunting style in the Gulf may be different this year, qualitatively speaking, the experience has probably been no different for the harp seals. It is as cruel and as bloody as ever. A typical scene: 虽然今年的天气条件和猎杀类型会与以往有所不同，但定性讲对于那种
harp seals的海豹的猎杀仍然是和以往一样的凶残、血腥。The Harp seal feels the pan beneath begin to shift as the bow of a  sealing
vessel cuts through the water and ice toward the animal. She is shot - sometimes
after two or three bullets that miss her whiz past her head. She may or
may not die quickly; more often than not, she will not die immediately upon
being shot. She will lie there for some time and suffer while a number of
variables determine how long this goes on. 这种可怜的动物能感到猎杀者的船具径直破冰而来，身下的浮冰在震动，死神在到来。有时两三发子弹飕飕穿过她的头部。她可能会立即死去也可能过段时间才死亡，通常更多 的时候，当她被射中之时不是立即死去。她将要痛苦的度过生命的最后时段，直到一些不 定的未知量的决定来结束这个痛苦时段的长短。 From ： IFAW International Fund for Animal Welfare
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