Canada's annual seal hunt got  underway yesterday with local hunters brandishing   spike embedded clubs scouring the ice flows off Eastern Canada with official permission to club to death anything up to 275,000 young harp seals in what the Canadian government and hunters describe as a necessary and humane cull.

For the hunters the annual hunt is a chance to make serious money  and they view the growing international criticism and revulsion caused by the annual seal hunt as an attack on Canada's traditional coastal communities .

Critics of this legalised slaughter  see things differently.

The head of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw), Fred O'Regan, said in a statement that the cull was a "cruel hunt for products that nobody needs".

The Canadian Government has resisted pressure to abolish the annual hunt .

One has to wonder where all the pain goes.

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