Introduction The Newfoundland and Labrador seal hunt started out of necessity. Most seal hunters were also fishermen. Their codfish was used to barter with the merchants; while these same merchants paid cash for seals. The cash from the sale of seals freed up some of their dependence on the fish merchants and now they could buy goods from whomever they liked. And of course, the seals provided nutritious meat for their tables. The women liked this because it also gave them the freedom to buy cloth for dresses and the like. They would also participate in the landsmen seal hunt when seals would come close to shore, and they would walk out on the rough Arctic ice and harvest them. Parson’s Christmas Annual, published in St. John’s in 1900, carries an account of the great seal hunt in Twillingate in 1862. An excerpt reads: “One woman, whose husband had at that time been ill for several years, and whose children were all young, actually took her rope and gaff, and like a true heroine, earned many pounds (English money) towards feeding her little ones and added comforts to the happiness and welfare of her suffering husband.” In short, the harvest of seals for that year was considered a godsend, so much so that the congregation of St. Peter’s Anglican Church had a bell cast in England which was hung in the tower of the church, and dedicated to the memory. Hunting seals is risky business and is not for the faint of heart. Lots of landsmen seal hunters have drifted away to their doom on the ice they were hunting on when the wind changed, blowing them from the land and never to be heard from again. Their families, widows and children, wept helplessly on shore. The history of Newfoundland is peppered with stories of sealers lives lost while trying to provide for their families. Sealing income is still part of our culture. Nowadays the meat is still eaten, the skins are tanned and made into hats, boots, coats, etc. The money sealers receive helps to buy bread, milk, eggs, and other food staples. It also provides money for children to go to school and college. But because of the constant propaganda and lies propagated and published, our sealing industry is in trouble. They, aninamal rights have destroyed our markets, and now our seal herds have been growing out of control. Our marine ecosystem has been eaten completely out of whack by the enormous appetites of the huge seal herds here in the year 2020. We have six species of seals. According to the last count, there are 7.6 million harp seals, plus over two million of other types of seals like Hooded, Grey, Harbour, Ring, Bearded, etc. Seals are responsible for eating 12 million metric ton of fish annually. Some scientist say seals eat the full total allowable commercial catch (TAC) in 18 days, while our ground fish and salmon fisheries have been on a moratorium since 1992. Last year our total allowable catch of cod was 12,000 metric tons, shared amongst thousands of inshore fish harvesters. Our fish harvesters are under a cod, salmon and ground fish moratorium since 1992 with no sign of reopening because the stocks are still low due to seal predication on the fish. In 2011, 6000 people received part of their income from seals in Canada. We live in a place where it’s hard to make a living, so we have to take advantage of all the renewable resources nature gives us to provide for our families. Seal hunters act without malice or emotion, simply doing what nature would have them do to make a living in a very harsh environment. Most of the pictures are old and taken by amateurs with cheap cameras. But it’s better to have these pictures than none at all to record our sealing culture.