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Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:54:30 -0300
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Definitely a young harp seals. Cheers, D 

-----Original Message-----
From: James W. Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca] 
Sent: October 9, 2011 9:50 PM
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Cc: Jim Wolford; Bowen, Don; Ian McLaren
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For all of you who saw today's article (Sunday Oct. 8/11) below, check
out the photo chosen by the Chronicle Herald to accompany it.
Supposedly it is a female grey seal.  NO WAY!  I hope many of you
recognized it as an immature or yearling HARP SEAL.

Chronicle Herald, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2011

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1267497.html

To cull or not to cull 
Review: Little evidence killing seals helps cod


By MICHAEL MACDONALD The Canadian Press
Sun, Oct 9 - 11:19 AM
  

I usually check these out first with Ian McLaren, but this time I will
leave it to him to correct my diagnosis if I am wrong.

I have a lot to say about this proposed "experiment" that the federal
Fisheries and Oceans Department wants to conduct in the Gulf of St.
Lawrence, but for now I will just say that I'm happy to hear the recent
comments of well-known scientists like Bob Fournier, Hal Whitehead,
Boris Worm, et al., and now the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat
(apparently a branch of the Fisheries department??).  


Many scientists and environmentalists and animal rights advocates are
speaking out that this proposed cull is not scientifically based at all,
but is purely political, catering to a loud lobby of fishermen and
sealers.  And calling the cull an "experiment" is truly the height of
folly, claiming to be testing some hypothesis (preposterous).


Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.

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