A whitecoat is a harp seal up to two and a half weeks old, and a blueback is a hooded seal up to about 15 to 18 months of age.
The trade in the skins of harp and hooded pup seals was prohibited on the ground that it was felt that the level of trade at that time was unsustainable.
Customs officers will also scrutinise importations declared under closely allied headings, to check that they are not being used for harp and hooded seal pup products.
They are a sort of hooded men of the industry, engaged in a conspiracy for their own ends.
Various species are to be found in the annex, but unfortunately not yet the harp or hooded seal.
Many went in with blankets over their heads, hooded, at their own request.
With regard to the hooded seal, there must be considerable doubt whether its population is of a size at which conservation should not be introduced.
Two days before he was due to give evidence at their trial two hooded men called at his house.
