Fisheries officers launch probe after seals found shot dead on Cape Breton beach
PORT HOOD, N.S. — Residents of Cape Breton’s southwest shore say they are shocked five seals have been found shot dead on a local beach.
“It’s not normal. We’ve never heard of it here before,” Charles MacDonald of Port Hood, N.S., said Monday.
Fisheries officials say they found the seals on a beach in the Little Judique area last Wednesday after a public tip.
“Evidence has been collected,” said Etienne Chiasson, spokesman for the federal Fisheries Department. “The seal carcasses have been removed from the beach as part of the investigation.”