These animals have enjoyed government protection for too long. Their populations have exploded and are now affecting fish populations adversely. It is time to reduce sealion numbers by opening a regulated hunting season on them.
I think there's a lot to be said for this proposal. Seal numbers in Scotland have expanded massively
since the seal cull was ended. I believe they have more than quadrupled and now account for half of
all seals in the world. They consume an amount of fish each year which is greater than Scotland's
fishermen are allowed to catch under the EU quotas.
Many villages depend almost entirely on fishing for their livelihoods and the fishing way of life is
becoming increasingly inevitable, in part, because of seals. I feel that this is yet another case of
a squeamish suburban sensibility forcing an unwelcome change on the rural way of life.
Even though I really think we are responsible for this, someone has to do something about it. Maybe
one day a new species will see us as over populated and start hunting us... As horrible as this
sounds, we totally deserve it. I'm for it, because one species could destroy another species, and
someone has to do something about it.... However it's sad that they can't just try a birth control
method or something else first. So I'm for it as long as they try an alternative first.
Sealions have been protected by the government for quite a long time. Thus now it is said that the
presence of sealions and their increase in population is causing problems to the population of
fishes adversely. And for such a reason they should be hunted down in order to maintain a balance
between the sealions and other fishes. But whatever may be the reason killing of any animal or
mammals should not be appreciated and thus the government should think of some other alternative to
save sealions in such a way so that they do not cause any problem to any other fishes. The
government should not accept the procedure of killing the sealions in order to save the population
of fishes in the water. Hunting these sealions is no less than killing them and killing can never be
a solution to save something.
There is obviously a reason why they are being protected by the government. It because they were in
dangered! So why reduce the population of the sea lions...that's just wrong. We need to worry about
the more important things..what about the over population in Russia, and taiwan, and the middle east
etc...?? Should we move some of them because the more and more that the population goes up the
higher the poverty rates increase....and there already through the roof...!!
Sea lions had access to fish way before humans came on the scene. Perhaps the debate should be that
humans should keep way from sea lion food supplies and find alternatives.
The one animal that totally diminishes food supplies and resources is man and we do it consciously,
animals don't - they do it to survive and have no idea that people are in competition with them for
the same food supply.
Why do humans always want to reduce their own species and others when they feel threatened? Basic
human survival or greed ?
We have more than we need in the US and the West and perhaps we should re-think our own habits
before trying to justify wiping out yet another species for our own needs.
Sea lions are beautiful creatures who hurt no-one so why try to justify reducing their numbers when
they are no real threat to us?
I am against it.
The sea lions are on earth for a purpose.
They have as much right to that fish supply as do we.
Humans have caused the problems on earth by over use of most resources. Left to their own devices
the animal world self - regulates and only takes what it needs.
If we didn't want so much that we didn't need there would be plenty for everyone. Humans are greedy.
They are a greater threat to resources than sea lions.
Life is , I suppose, about the battle between the species. The most vicious hunter and predator to
many species is man. This is why so many species are now under the threat of extinction.
This attitude shows a complete lack of understanding of our obligations to the natural world and how
we should respect and preserve it.
Why do you think you have more rights to the fish than the creatures in the sea who depend on it?
We have alternatives, they don't.
22 Jan 2008 09:35
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