Where is the indignation for the salmon?
Comox Valley Echo
Friday, May 30, 2008
Save the salmon from seal predation, what a great idea. Stop seals from helping to wipe out four years of salmon run. What could be wrong with that?
Consider where you live; pet ownership here borders on the mandatory. This is an area where we must call in a veterinarian to determine if we are hurting the predators.
Not a marine biologist or member of DFO who might know something about what a seal finds distressing or not. We choose a person who stems from the pet trade whose establishments spring up like so many magic mushrooms, who makes a very comfortable living catering to the owners of bread down, surgically altered, mentally deficient animals, who call out the militia if a bear or cougar should stray into town and convert one of them to fertilizer after passing it through its digestive tract.
Where is the indignation for the fish, the traditional banner of our province. We are being robbed of our fishing heritage by inactivity at the government level, due to not wishing to damage 30 seals.
Cull the blasted seals or do what we do best, waffle.
As the runs suffer this decimation at the estuary level, the effluent from fish farms get a large percentage of the rest.
When the runs are gone we'll feel so much better, then government can get back to being politically correct on some other pressing problem.
T.A. Walker
Comox
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