I just watched Global news and was abolutely sickened to hear that another harbour seal cull is being planned for our province. The seals are once again being blamed for consuming all the salmon, so therefore, since humans like to interfere and play God, we should kill them!?!! It's not like humans don't do this sort of thing all the time. We're destroying our shark populations around the world with no regard to the consequences.
This time, it is right here in our own backyard.
A similar cull was done about 10 years ago, and according to someone at UBC (whose name I unfortuantely didn't catch), it was NOT a success and did nothing to increase numbers of the salmon. In fact, seals most like to eat hake, which eat salmon. Therefore if we kill seals, we increase the hake which in turn eat all the salnon. It's not rocket science!!!
The seals who swim with us a Whytecliff, and other sites around our province, are not only fun and playful, but they TRUST us, and now we are going to turn around and kill them! Despite my attachment to them as a diver, from a scientific standpoint this cull sounds barbaric and pointless!
Does anyone know anything that can be done, or anyone who can do something to prevent this?
This time, it is right here in our own backyard.
A similar cull was done about 10 years ago, and according to someone at UBC (whose name I unfortuantely didn't catch), it was NOT a success and did nothing to increase numbers of the salmon. In fact, seals most like to eat hake, which eat salmon. Therefore if we kill seals, we increase the hake which in turn eat all the salnon. It's not rocket science!!!
The seals who swim with us a Whytecliff, and other sites around our province, are not only fun and playful, but they TRUST us, and now we are going to turn around and kill them! Despite my attachment to them as a diver, from a scientific standpoint this cull sounds barbaric and pointless!
Does anyone know anything that can be done, or anyone who can do something to prevent this?