Dear Editor:

This is a copy of a letter I sent to Global Entertainment:

So, you let anti-hunting groups, who are in the minority, bully you into cancelling all hunting-related programming for 2013 and no doubt beyond. I'm a law-abiding retired vet who loves the outdoors when it comes to hunting and fishing.

I served for 32 years so people in Canada can have a free voice; it was not meant to give these radical tree huggers the power to take away my free choice/voice.

You at Global TV would prefer to partner with these ill-informed individuals and take my right away to enjoy this type of programming in my retirement years. Bad on you.

Henceforth, I will tell my buddies that I'm boycotting advertising sponsors and their products, with a serious consideration of a permanent blackout of Global TV.

PO1 W. Lynch CD2 CCM

Dear Editor:

Here’s an email I sent to Global regarding cancelling your TV show some time ago:

I have just been advised by an old hunting/fishing buddy of mine in PEI that you have stopped running our local outdoor show - Newfoundland Sportsman - as well as all hunting shows in Canada. Obviously I'm a bit late hearing this news as it has been in effect for quite some time now.

I have to say, I was very surprised to hear that a media outlet such as yours would choose to take such drastic action against one of the best outdoor shows to be produced in recent memory and lower yourself to the tree huggers of Vancouver - the Vancouver Humane Society. No doubt this is strictly a business decision and has nothing to do with what is right or wrong; it's about your sponsors and the threat of boycott. Whatever happen to freedom of the press and freedom of choice? If you don't like what's on TV, change the channel.

Shame on you for choosing sides in this matter. YOU are now deciding for us what we should watch and what we shouldn't. As they say, for every action there is a reaction and mine and my family's will be to boycott your station.

I have know Newfoundland Sportsman TV Show hosts Gord Follett and Dwight Blackwood for many years and have actually had the privilege to spend time with them during a hunting trip on one special occasion three years ago at Red Indian Lake with my hunting buddy, Glenn Greening.

I do consider it a privilege, as these gentlemen are actually protectors and respect the wildlife in Newfoundland - not as portrayed by your protesters. I consider myself to be a responsible hunter as well, and yes, an animal lover, actually. I respect what nature has provided us and treat every kill with the utmost respect. 

Your actions to cancel hunting programs are shameful and even discriminatory, in my opinion.

I hope your action is reversible and you will even take the time to visit with Newfoundland Sportsman and see for yourself. This is a sporting show to be proud of and not shelved. Please reconsider your decision.

Dear Editor:

Thought I would let you know about about what is happening to Sutherlands Pond in the Millertown area, which holds only landlocked char.

There has been a lot of illegal fishing there; nets being used, taking more than their limit and putting out lines tied to plastic bottles floating through the night and checked in the morning.

The pond cannot sustain this kind of illegal activity. I feel that there should be more presence of patrols by the fisheries officers and I am hoping that you can get the message out. A lot of people watch your TV show; maybe you can mentioned it there is well and hopefully something will happen to stop this poaching activity.

I watch your shows every week and enjoy them very much. Keep up the good work.

Dear Editor:

Recent cuts to our provincial Wildlife Division and to Inland Fish and Wildlife came as a complete shock to many of us, and if government doesn’t reverse this decision, our fish, game and even us hunters are going to suffer greatly.

Imagine, cutting 30 percent of the staff of one division and 20 percent of another!

There’s already a lot of poaching going on in our province and you can bet your bottom dollar that it’s going to increase. Moose will be shot all year round more often and salmon will be jigged like never before. I hate to think something like this can happen to our majestic moose and greatest game fish, but it can and it will.

This was a bad move that I hope will be changed.