Yo, easy on the Gazer, E.T. But I agree that there is nothing incredibly inhumane about the seal hunt. It's not just indigenous people hunting seals though, as is being implied.

Most restrictions on hunting in Canada are framed as nessesary to stop extinction. Like almost every environmental move that does not take colonialism into consideration, banning hunting of animals that are primary food source for indigenous communities is making indigenous people pay for what settlers did. It was not indigenous people who decimated almost every species on Turtle Island but it is almost always indigenous people who end up paying the price either through extinction of a species of banning of hunting (which by the way no settler gov in canada has the right to do).