Seal meat
Seal meat was one of the staple foods of the indigenous peoples in the regions of the Arctic Circle (e.g. Eskimos and Chukchi ). The game meat under the several centimeters thick layer of bubbler is dark in color and very lean. In the north of Central Europe it played a subordinate role, even if seals were hunted for their fur and fat. Some of the meat was dried and used as animal feed , for example in the Faroe Islands in the 19th century .
Especially in Canada and Norway are seals hunted on a significant scale until now. The state-approved quota in Canada in 1999 was 285,000 harp seals and 10,000 folding hats , in Norway around 20,000 seals were killed in the following year. Since the market for seal skins has largely collapsed due to protests by animal rights activists over many years , they are now mainly hunted to protect coastal fisheries and for their meat. It is processed into fattening feed for animal breeding and in some cases also offered for human consumption, fresh, in tins and ready-made meals .
The European Union has enacted a trade ban on seal products on 20 August 2010, which do not originate from indigenous hunting.
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- ↑ Seal meal - pictures & photos. In: welt.de . March 12, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 .
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