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Seal-hunt 'bounty' up for grabs
CanWest News Service
Published: Wednesday, July 25, 2007

NEW CANAAN, Conn. -- A businesswoman who last year offered to pay the Canadian government $16 million US to end the seal hunt is now offering a $5,000-US bounty to anyone with film footage or photographs "depicting the cruelty of the 2007 hunt."

"We hope that this bounty will produce footage that will graphically depict the brutality of the hunt," says Cathy Kangas, CEO and founder of PRAI Beauty, a global beauty company.

Kangas questions why Canada banned journalists and observers from viewing this year's hunt. Veterinarians who went to Newfoundland in April on behalf of the European Commission were also denied access, she says.

The government has also rejected her proposal to buy back existing East Coast fishing licences and replace the seal hunt with eco-tourism.