Following this year’s Canadian seal hunt, the official kill count stood at 317,672 seals, a number that solidifies the hunt's reputation as the largest commercial slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. Of the dead, 98.5% were seals three months or younger. Appalled by our on-ice reports, people worldwide are clamoring for an end to the hunt, and many have already joined our boycott of Canadian seafood. Now we're turning our attention to companies and restaurants to get them to join the boycott. Some already have, but the world's largest seafood chain, Red Lobster, has so far refused our pleas. Help convince the chain to change its mind.

Why boycott Canadian seafood?

Seal hunting is an off-season activity conducted by fishers from Canada's East Coast. They earn a small fraction of their incomes from sealing—primarily from the sale of seal pelts to European fashion markets. But the vast majority of the sealers' incomes are from commercial fisheries. Canadian seafood exports to the United States contribute $3 billion annually to the Canadian economy—dwarfing the few million dollars provided by the seal hunt. The connection between the commercial fishing industry and the seal hunt in Canada gives consumers all over the world the power to end this cruel and brutal slaughter.

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