Sentences with phrase «seal hunters»
"Seal hunters" refers to people who catch and kill seals, usually for their fur, meat, or other body parts. Full definition
While sailing along the Pacific coast in the 1800s, a whale and seal hunter named Charles Scammon reported seeing northern elephant seals from Baja California in Mexico to Point Reyes in California.
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Squatting fishermen and seal hunters occupied the island, including H. Bay Webster near Webster Point, until the federal government leased the island to J.G. Howland in July 1909 for a period of 5 years.
Residents Heaman Bayfield Webster, a former island seal hunter, long - time Ventura resident and assistant postmaster, established residence on Middle Anacapa with his wife and two sons in 1907.
For the remainder of the 19th century, this small oceanic outpost was occupied by various seasonal fishermen, transient seal hunters and Chinese lobster trappers.
It's one of the oldest coastal towns and is seeped in history dating back to the early nineteenth century when whalers and seal hunters landed in the area.
Many communities, regions, and even entire countries identify themselves with snow and ice, from reindeer herders in Lapland to Native American seal hunters and winter sports enthusiasts in the Rocky Mountains.
In a second round of cases in Luxembourg, a number of seal hunters failed (yet again) to convince the General Court to annul the EU - wide ban on trade in seal products.
In 2004, a scientist who had been surveying elephant seals in Greenland turned up with seal finger — a swollen, purple, bacteria - induced blister found in seal hunters.
But for the body discovered by three seal hunters, winter is a matter of permanence.
We spend two days exploring the island by foot taking in the panorama of rocky islets and sea stacks, once the lonely preserve of settlers and seal hunters and now returned to nature.
A seal hunter dragged a harp seal carcass on an ice pan off the coast of Cape Breton island, Nova Scotia, last year.
Canada's governor general ate a slaughtered seal's raw heart in a show of support to the country's seal hunters, a display that a European Union spokeswoman on Tuesday called «too bizarre to acknowledge.»
In a nutshell, the seal hunters argued that the EU acted ultra vires by adopting the ban on the basis of article 114 TFEU (harmonization of rules for the establishment and functioning of the internal market).
In dismissing the arguments put forward by the seal hunters, the General Court made a number of interesting statements regarding the EU's ability to severely restrict trade of an «exotic import» (a product not made within the EU) within the EU's internal market on grounds of protecting the welfare of animals living outside the EU.
This does not mean that the seal hunters will not prevail in the end (although I doubt it), as they have also challenged the Commission implementing Regulation, which will enable them to challenge the basic Regulation too (the decision of the GC in that case can be found here and my comments are here).
As expected, the CJEU held that the seal hunters lacked standing to challenge a legislative act.
The first argument put forward by the seal hunters in this case is that the EU should not be able to rely on article 114 TFEU as a legal basis to adopt the seal product ban.