Every year on the Canadian ice floes hundreds of thousands of seals are brutally bashed to death or shot by hunters for their pelts. Hunters are permitted to kill seal pups when they start to moult their downy white fur at around 12-15 days. As a result many of the seals are only babies that haven't even eaten their first solid meal or taken their first swim when they get a bullet through their skull or a club landing on their forehead.
http://www.animalsaustralia.org/take_action/petitions/canadian-seal-hunt