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 WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) - Saying it wants to save its fishing industry, this southern African nation is letting seal hunters club more seals than last year in an annual hunt that began this week.
But animal rights activists says killing thousands of adult males and tens of thousands of pups is cruel and unnecessary because fishing boats are the real culprits behind the decline in Namibia's fish stocks.
The sparsely populated country is famous for the wildlife and desert landscape of its Skeleton Coast. Among the tourist attractions are the 850,000 seals that live on roughly a dozen rocky, remote islands off the southwest Atlantic coast.
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