4 Criminal Newfoundland Sealers Convicted in Provincial Court of Jumping Season Updated: Tuesday, August 15 9:48 AM NT CBC News Four Newfoundland men have been convicted of killing seals before last year s hunt legally opened in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A surveillance flight observed the four men on March 28, 2005, a day before the scheduled opening of the hunt in the region. A fisheries officer used high-powered photo and video equipment to monitor the four men. Fisheries officers from Rocky Harbour and St. Anthony boarded the vessels when they docked at Port Saunders two days later. The four men convicted in Corner Brook provincial court were Harlan Warren and Perry Warren, both of Margaree; Glen King, of Fox Roost; and Norman King, of Burnt Islands. Each man was fined $1,500. As well, Harlan Warren was fined $500 for failing to carry an at-sea observer. All of the illegally caught pelts were forfeited, at a value of $9,071. 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CONVICTED NEWFOUNDLAND CANADIAN SEAL HUNTERS - Arrested on Federal Crimes Sentenced in Provincial Court - Sealers, from left, Patrick Shelley, Terry King, Derrick Pinksen and Dyson Sacrey, attend the first day of their trial on charges of selling baby seal pelts. The four are among 11 standing trial on the charges NEWS ALERT: Multiple Convicted Canadian sealers to be sentenced in March Multiple Sealers Convicted of killing and selling illegal baby seals to be sentenced THE CANADIAN PRESS CORNER BROOK, N.L. NFLD Newfoundland - More than Ten fishermen from Newfoundland and Labrador were convicted of selling blueback seal pelts nearly 13 years ago. However, due to the loose enforcement and poor managment of the Seal Hunt by the Canadian DFO, the sealers go away with it and were never sentenced for over 13 years. However, they will be finally be sentenced next month. The men were charged in November 1996 for selling bluebacks to a seal processing plant after an investigation by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Bluebacks are hooded seals that haven’t shed their blue coats. Under a law that came into effect in February 1993, it is illegal to sell bluebacks. Over 100+ sealers were implicated, and had committed these crimes. Many got away and are still at large. Out of the final 11 caught, four of them are photographed here, and the convicted Canadian killers are named: Patrick Shelley, Terry King, Derrick Pinksen and Dyson Sacrey. This is akin to the Whitecoat Law which made killing white coated infant neonatal harp seals with white coats a criminal offense. Pro-Sealers often falsely try to quote this law, as if just "saying" a law exists somehow means it "doesn’t happen". For example, a pro-sealer will attempt to argue "We don’t kill baby seals anymore, because there’s a law against it." which has been debunked and shown False. For instance, murder is "against the law" too, but that doesn’t mean it never happens. So if you ever see anyone attempt to cite the Whitecoat law of 1986 or the Blueback Law and use that to try to assert that baby seals aren’t killed by Seal Clubbers anymore, you will now be armed with the evidence that this falsehood has been debunked. This criminal court case is a clear example that disproves the assertion. The fact that Canadian Sealers still illegally slaughtered and even sold thousands of illegal baby seal pelts which were explicitly covered by this Federal law, even AFTER it had been in effect, for years, is clear documented proof that just because the law exists, it does not mean that Canadian Sealers are not still committing the Offence. This case is well-documented and recorded into provincial court evidence. Therefore, this also establishes the fact that showing pictures of Bluebacks and Whitecoats in order to raise awareness of the Seal Hunt crimes is perfectly valid, as contrary to their claims of it not happening anymore, this demonstrates that it does still happen, even after laws are in effect. This establishes the perfectly valid reason to display images of any and all types of seals, including whitecoat and blueback images, because Canadian sealers did in fact kill millions of whitecoats, and they’ve done it for decades, therefore it is perfectly valid to display them and to also write "NEVER FORGET!" in order to always remember what these perpetrators did and have still been doing for decades. The same men, who killed whitecoats by the thousands are still there, the same sealers who killed whitecoats for decades are still out there killing seals. And the same ones convicted for killing these bluebacks are still out there every year on the ice as well. So displaying images of any and all seals, including white coats, bluebacks, young ones, old ones, any ones, is completely and perfectly justified in light of overwhelming criminal evidence against these perpetrators, who continued to kill even seals that were protected by Law. The men were found guilty. And will be sentenced March 20. Nevertheless, proving what observers have been saying all along, and showing that the seal hunt is poorly enforced and sealers are rarely punished by Canadian authorities their defence lawyer, Averill Baker, says she will be requesting an absolute discharge for the multiple convicted Canadian men. Despite the fact that scores of Sealers were decisively convicted of these crimes. 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