The following images are of the US Humane Society while monitoring the annual Canadian Seal harvest (Prince Edward Island, Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Cabot Strait and Newfoundland).

Sealing boats the day before the annual seal harvest begins.

A ship from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (right) overlooks a sealing boat making it's way through the ice flows.

A few week old harp seal.

A sealer drags a harp seal to his boat with the traditional hakapik. A hakapik is a Norwegian designed club that's commonly used during the annual harvest.