TORONTO — The Alberta provincial government plans to ban the practice of spearing wildlife after a video posted online showing an American killing a black bear with a spear sparked outrage.

The video was posted in June on the YouTube account of Josh Bowmar, who runs an Ohio-based fitness company, and shows him killing the bear on a hunt in northern Alberta.

By the time it was removed from public view on Monday it had garnered more than 208,000 views.

The 13-minute video shows Bowmar launching a massive spear — with a camera attached — at a bear from 36 to 46 feet way and captures his jubilant reaction when the animal is hit.

‘‘I just speared a bear!’’ Bowmar says on the video. ‘‘He’s going down. I drilled him perfect . . . I smoked him.’’

He later says he got ‘‘mad penetration. That’s a dead bear.’’

Commenters on YouTube were livid. Twitter users called the bear’s killing sick, inhumane, shameful, and disgusting.

Alberta’s Environment and Parks department issued a statement calling the spear hunting an ‘‘archaic’’ practice. Spear hunting is already illegal in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province.

Associated Press