Word: whitecoat
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...week that it would allow the resumption of coastal seal hunting from ships north of Newfoundland. The annual spring hunt was abandoned in 1983 after environmentalists, horrified that hunters commonly clubbed seal pups to death for their prized white fur, persuaded the European Community to ban the importation of whitecoat pelts. The U.S. had barred them a decade earlier...
...Slaughter. Newfoundland swilers are old hands at blasting and nudging their craft clear into the whelping ground. There the barrel man, high in the crow's-nest, spots the whitecoats. The ship runs alongside, the men grab a gaff (a pole with a steel hook on the end) and clamber overside. They race to kill the first whitecoat and bring back its tail to dip it ceremoniously in a glass of rum as a toast to a bumper trip...
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