On one of my early trips to Canada to sail on the Canadian enforcement vessels, I asked Reg Collie, supervisor out of Halifax this question. "Is it true that the sealers club to death those little white seal pups"? His answer, "Yes, they kill every Jesus thing they see."
I retired before the ban on killing seal pups went into effect.

When the early explorers came here the cod were so thick a ship could hardly sail through them. Where were these demon seals then?

The fact is, man has killed off the cod,haddock, hake,pollock, Halibut, flounders, tuna etc. with his too effecient methods.

I remember the local Haddock fishermen talking about shovelling "Ping Pongs" over the side by the ton. (A ping pong is a small Haddock, not big enough for market).

I have witnessed them throwing small flounders over the side using a stick with a nail in the end of it. They would spear the fish and flip it oveboard like there was no end to them. Well guess what? there was an end, and it wasn't the seals that did that!