Tag Archives: Fisheries council calls for massive seal cull in Gulf of St. Lawrence

I realize its not US fishery news, well, not yet anyway, but it damn sure will be. The links between fish stocks and seals

Canada keeping tabs on EU’s plan to cull seal population Europe is facing a seal-shooting controversy in its own backyard, as concern over fish stocks and nuisance seals led the European Parliament
 to approve a plan to “manage” its seal population. Canada’s sealing industry says the recent events are highly hypocritical given Europe’s condemnation of Canada’s commercial seal hunt.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-keeping-tabs-on-eus-plan-to-cull-seal-population/article4597176/