Fisheries committee  Definitely we need the hakapik or a gaff. Say you kill a seal out there 100, 150 yards from your boat and you send a man out with nothing in his hands--it's a suicide mission. If you happen to fall in the water, you've got that hakapik to haul yourself back out. And not only that

Fisheries committee  Thank you. My name is Doyle Brown. I started sealing some 36 years ago on the Gulf Star. I always sealed on the big boats. For the last four or five years I've had a little 34' 11”, and as Mr. Gillett said, we fellows cannot afford to beat off to Labrador and take 250 seals a