article_snippet: Heartbreaking: A number of harp seals lay on the ice next to the skinned carcasses of other animals surrounded by pools of blood in the wake of a day during the biggest marine animal hunt on the planet .
article_snippet: A seal hunter gets ready to kill a harp seal with a blow to the head with the 'hammer' end of a hakapik .
article_snippet: An aerial view of a seal hunting camp shows over a thousand harp seal pelts covering the ground at the end of a day of hunting .
article_snippet: a seal hunting tool which has a hammer head used to crush a seal's skull, and a hook used to drag away the carcass.
article_snippet: Looking for seal: Bertrand Oucoin from Magdalen Islands aboard the Emy Serge D for the annual seal hunt .
article_snippet: Photo shows: A slaughtered harp seal is gaffed to land from the icy water by hunters.\n©Richard Sobol/Exclusivepix Media .
article_snippet: Blood on their hands: Bertrand Oucoin  pulls a harp seal onto Bertrand Oucoin   barge at the beginning of the annual seal hunting season .
article_snippet: Pelts from harp seals lie in pools of blood after a long day of seal hunting in Canada .