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ken wrote:
Culling the herd is never pretty, whether it's deer in Northern Michigan, seals in the St. Laurence, Cattle on the prairies, or chickens in British Columbia. But the specialists in the field say it must be done to prevent even greater tragedies. Greenpeace loves the images of white big-eyed babes and it does wonders for its fund-raising. The true story is a little different. The depletion of cod stocks in the Atlantic has left no room for the increasing seal population, which feed on cod. And if all the cod are gone, the seals would starve anyway, much like the deer herds in Michigan. There is no evil here, just tough choices between rebuilding a declining resource, and facing the wrath of bleeding-heart liberals. As Trudeau said, "Let 'em bleed." Amen. That may all be quite true, but as far as th ecod stocks go, the overfishing by Spain and everybody else in the world who comes here takes a lot bigger toll than the seals. I honestly don't think there is enough knowledge about the food chain in the ocean to jump to ANY conclusions. For a dumb example, is there ANY possibility that seal excrement feeds lower life forms in the ocean? If a bacteria that USED to feed on these droppings was in turn the food for something that the cod ate, then reducing the seal population may be a bad thing. I don't know if there is ANY validity to that last paragraph, but until more work is done, nobody knows if it's true or not. We shouldn't be blindly going into places where even the angels fear to tread. If we HAVE to guess about environment changing actions, shouldn't we err on the side of caution? mike |
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