Stewart Cook

PHOTOS: Seal Hunt

   
This hunter attacked me after he killed the seal
   
This hunter sprinted across the ice killing many seals as he went
     
  
This is a young ragged jacket with a lot of white fur. It is LEGAL to kill this seal.
   
A seal looks up as a hunter clubs it
   
Tossing the carcass
     
  
Blood red ice.
   
Struck and Lost. Often a seal is not killed on the first blow and escapes ( a victim of struck and lost) This one most likely drowned.
   
This hunter was one of two that attacked out helicopter
     
  
Hunter dragging seals across very poor ice
   
A beater looks back after crawling through a blood trail
   
Finger
     
  
Tossing a pelt
   
Bleeding
   
Dragging pelts
     
  
Shot from the helicopter in very poor conditions. This was the first hunting we saw amid terrible ice conditions.
   
A seagull pecks at a fresh carcass
   
My first trip to the red ice in 2001
     
  
Shooting seals
  
Washing the blood from his hands
   
Bleeding
     
  
Dragging
   
Dragging pelts
   
skinned
     
  
Clubbing
   
Tossing a cracass overboard, no meat is taken
   
An intact skinned seal
     
  
Flippers
   
Seals are kileld by clubbing to smash the skull
   
Blood footprint
     
  
Pile of carcasses shot from the helicopter.
   
A seal pelt
   
A hunter rides on top of fresh pelts.
     
  
Sharpening knife.
   
Hunters with pelts
   
A helicopter is used to sling pelts
     
  
Pelts are hoisted in the fishing trawler by a crane
   
A quad bike draggs pelts to shore
   
This was the 3rd blow and the seal is obviously still alive
     
  
A dead seal is dragged onto a boat to be skinned
   
With blood dripping from it's nose a seal is tossed aside
   
clubbing
     
  
Clubbing
   
skinning