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Originally Posted by steeljack
Maybe Eric can answer .....how come there are so many more seals these days ? something doesn't make sense to me , surely there would have been millions of the things in the old days when abundant amounts of food was available to them before over fishing depleted the Cod and other fish stocks .  |
Without the benefit of research, I would say that the seal population is so large because the adult Harp seal is a superbly efficient killing machine, and a much better fisherman than any human ... and most of the overfishing was done by European and Asian floating vacuum cleaners ... Canada now protects its fishery and foreign ships fishing in Canadian waters are arrested. Fishery protection vessels and coastal defence ships, esp. the new "Kingston" class vessels, are constantly on patrol. The Harp seals are definitely not an endagered species .... unhappily the Newfoundland fisherman is.
