" Recently, I found an interesting old article about a woman who used to work for IFAW.

It says she brokered a deal with the Southern Canadian sealers, where IFAW would be given joint power to decide on their hunt quotas.
And their hunt would become full use.
Meaning all the meat, oil and skins would be used.
But apparently, when she took the deal to her supervisors at IFAW, she was fired.
I found her on Twitter and she's agreed to Skype with me.

My name is Anamika. At one point, I worked for The International Fund for Animal Welfare for about 12, 13 years, if I recall correctly. Was there much conversation ever about Inuit? And how Inuit were affected by these campaigns? Nobody wanted to talk about the fact that the Inuit were just as much, if not more, affected by the European ban as the sealers were.

I want to take the opportunity right now to apologize for my role while I worked for IFAW in this whole thing because I am really embarrassed and I'm very sorry but I actually was part of all this. And I feel really, to this day I still - uh, still weighs heavily on me.
I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you cry. [laugh]
No, it's uh ...it's happy tears.
Ok, that's good.
No, seriously, to this day it still weighs heavily on me.
So if there's anything I can do, please let me know. Wow. I'm glad you found me.

After all these years of chasing anti-sealers and feeling invisible, it was so nice to talk to Anamika.
She confirmed they've known about us all along.