(Warning, the video is upsetting).From Yahoo! News:

“Canada’s annual seal hunt, which the government promised would be more humane this year, cranked up slowly on Friday because of thick ice.

The government is allowing hunters to kill up to 275,000 young harp seals on the ice floes off Eastern Canada, but only three had been reported killed on the first morning of the hunt in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.”

To learn more about the seal hunt and pledge to boycott Canadian seafood in protest, check out Protect Seals 2008.