Treasured gift gone: Woman loses MMPA prohibited seal skin purse at border

March 21, 2015 Canada, National

Nora Fitzgerald always liked the attention her seal skin purse garnered, but not the kind it drew at a United States border crossing. Fitzgerald had no idea seal skin products were prohibited from being taken into the United States. Their crossing was going rather routine until a female agent asked about her purse. She said she was told seal is an endangered species, and fur products were not to be taken across the border. Read the rest here 17:43

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3 Responses to Treasured gift gone: Woman loses MMPA prohibited seal skin purse at border

StripedBassHole says:

March 23, 2015 at 10:24 pm

Once again “TRADITION” comes under attack. What the FUCK is wrong with People? Will you finally be “HAPPY” when “FREEDOM” ends? Do I see a “FEMA CAMP” in the distance or are “MY EYES FAILING” and it’s right in front of me?

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- R Best says:
  
  March 29, 2015 at 6:26 am
  
  FEMA??
  
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  - StripedBassHole says:
    
    March 29, 2015 at 5:00 pm
    
    Here’s a hint. What has happened to All Americans Common Property? If you investigate we have LOST a significant portion of “OUR COMMON PROPERTY” via “The Obama Ocean Policy” an Executive decision not a Congressional Mandate. Our Waters are no longer “OUR WATERS” now. It started out as a House Bill H.R. 3534 “The CLOSED Act” where it failed. America went on the Oprah Diet and LOST ALL it’s WATER WEIGHT… America now is from Sea to Shining Sea with some MAJOR GAPS in between. The “WATERS” are no longer “OUR COMMON PROPERTY”. If “THE LAW OF THE SEAS TREATY” is adopted we lose our SOVEREIGNTY of these AREAS too, Do you enjoy your freedom in a DEMOCRACY or would you rather live in a SOCIALIST SOCIETY? This is not a Conspiracy Theory, we are already in transition unless “ALL AMERICANS” wake up. We need a return to by the PEOPLE for the PEOPLE or this will SNOW BALL… I don’t mean to be harsh. We just need to stop this progression before it is too late. It has become more then just the HAND WRITING on the WALL.
    Call me a Nut, The general Population has been shielded from this REALITY…
    
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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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