I agree with Mr. Butler on that. It's a safety tool, plus sometimes probably you want to make sure that the seal was dead and you use it for that purpose too.
The issue is to not have all these bloody cameras out there filming it. A permit should never be given. If I go to Alberta and I go into a slaughterhouse, I'd probably throw up, and I've killed thousands of seals, thousands. I don't like it. It's part of my livelihood.
So banning that is not going to make it go away. It's the pictures you've got to stop. Misinformation.