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Author Topic: Native fishermen call for right to shoot nuisance seals  (Read 5402 times)

fish4fun

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Re: Native fishermen call for right to shoot nuisance seals
« Reply #15 on: August 28, 2008, 09:07:09 AM »
Interesting pictures from 'Everyday'. However those are sea lions and not seals, a problem we don't have to deal with up here. At least not yet!!
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kellya

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Re: Native fishermen call for right to shoot nuisance seals
« Reply #16 on: August 28, 2008, 07:03:29 PM »
Why dont they kill them nobody will do anything about it?
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Re: Native fishermen call for right to shoot nuisance seals
« Reply #17 on: August 28, 2008, 09:25:21 PM »
somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think seals and sea lions are protected by the same international agreement that is supposed to protect whales. 
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Re: Native fishermen call for right to shoot nuisance seals
« Reply #18 on: August 29, 2008, 09:20:38 PM »
There probably is an international agreement that covers all sea mammals, but seals are open for harvest on the east coast so I don't know if it is an international agreement or Canadian law that covers them. I think that seals would be governed by canadian law otherwise foreigners would have stopped the east coast seal hunt years ago.
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