Canadian culture learns about wildlife and forests. The many different ways of living in Canada's regions impact cultural vision. The major problem with viewing wildlife involving cultural acts is seal hunting. Seal hunting has continued for years and harms many of the sea's natural inhabitants. The Gulf of St. Lawrence in the Maritimes is a popular location for such activities. An exploration of a day in the life of a seal and a hunter is depicted in the Maritimes, along with its effects on Maritime culture. In the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, they open a hunt for seal hunters every year to allow them to preform. its mission is to destroy the cultural fauna of the sea in the Maritimes. At this time of the season, you can see many ships of different sizes traveling on the ice in search of their prey. They are generally known as commercial seal hunters. Harp seals and hooded seals make up the majority of prey. When they reach the seals, they continue their work shooting any seal in sight, young, old or even seals carrying seal pups. It is a very difficult situation to imagine when defenseless animals are fleeing from their hunters. Seals escape and are able to continue on their way, but those that are shot and injured usually go unnoticed and end up suffering and dying. Hunters use hakapiks to kill injured seals at close range. It is a large wooden club with an ice pick on the end for dragging them. They also bludgeon injured, immobile seals. Once the seal is killed, the captors take their hakapik pickaxe and put it back into the seals to transport aboard their ships. This is when the seal is skinned, sometimes while still alive. Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans is not big enough to make... paper... independent businesses, and even commercial businesses would still suffer. The clubs used might be acceptable if they were used in a humane way, like how the natives used them to hunt for survival purposes, not for commercial slaughter or wealth. DFO says it closely monitors all aspects of the seal hunt. from licensing hunters, reviewing seal hunters' duties, to dockside inspections and inspections at purchasing and processing plants. But in reality, it shows that DFO has fined other animal rights groups more than it has fined sealing industry hunters. This changed many people's minds about the nature of DFO's functions. Since DFO has been reluctant to fine hunters and prevent them from hunting beyond their quota, they continue to do whatever they want with no consequences for them...