Canadian sealers have been stranded by unusual pack ice conditions.
About 100 boats carrying fishermen conducting the cull of 270,000 seals off Newfoundland’s coast have been trapped by ice.
Some are running out of food and fuel and the bad conditions are set to continue.
The annual seal cull, the fishermen say, is necessary to preserve fish stocks ensuring a supply of McDonald’s Filet-o-Fish and Kit-e-Kat (or was that KitKat?). The seal pelts are used to insulate frozen Norse totty and the oil from the seal blubber is used to, er … power incubators in hospitals or something terribly crucial like that.
Well, the stranded sealers can always club each other to keep their spirits up.