There are legal limits to how closely a person can observe the hunt. It would be better if the government was on the side of the hunt and the hunters, and reviewed its legislation to tighten the criteria for observing seals. If you follow the news, you will realize that in almost every area, when the courts, be it at the civil, criminal or international level, have a case before them, the activity in question continues until a ruling is made.
But what we are dealing with is rather unique. It is as if people took for granted the fact that observation is a necessary evil and that we have to live with its consequences, rather than take the opposite approach. In fact, we should begin by saying that observation is useless, and that if there is no way around it, it should be allowed under extremely strict conditions. But the opposite is happening today. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans should act on a policy to strictly limit observation for all the reasons we mentioned before, including security. We are convinced that we could defend this approach in court and win.