Seal Cull Call
NEW ZEALAND is not the only country where seals are perceived by commercial fishers as posing a threat to the fishing industry. In Canada, calls have been made for a cull of the grey seal population off the east coast of Canada, on the grounds that they eat large amounts of fish which would otherwise be caught by humans. The demands for a cull of the 70,000 strong grey seal population coincide with a crisis in the North-west Atlantic fishery. Quotas have been cut and thousands of jobs lost in fish processing factories. Overfishing has been identified as the major cause of the crisis, with over-optimistic assessments of stocks by scientists an important contributing factor.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 21, Issue 2, 1 May 1990, Page 8
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118Seal Cull Call Forest and Bird, Volume 21, Issue 2, 1 May 1990, Page 8
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