I'm with ya Jack ... "Forget the cod. The fucking seals are taking 7.5 billion tons of biomass out of the oceans every year. Everything they eat man could eat. They are competing with the sealer for a living."
Here on the Bay of Fundy they are a real problem for fishermen .... raiding nets, fish farms, weirs ... my son the commercial diver calls them the 'raccoon' of the sea .... he was doing a dive down on Grand Manaan last year when some irate vacationer 'from away' came down to the docks raging on how he witnessed some fishermen shooting seals, they getting into their catch (herring) in the nets ... sheer cruelty was the source of his rage ... little does he understand these fishermen down in that area are not living in the comfort of luxury ... they live a hard dangerous life to scrape a living ... those seals were competing with their livlihood .... and BTW, there are many, many seals in the Bay of Fundy and they are certainly not endangered. Also there is no cod in these waters.