[Skooz]

It is interesting you accuse me of changing the subject when I did no such thing.

If this had anything to do with the "cod shortage" the targets would be the adult seals. They eat many times more cod than the adults.

This has nothing to do with controlling the seal population for any reason, including the world's supply of cod. Your constant insistence that it is is odd and borders on obsessive.

[xone]

'If this had anything to do with the "cod shortage" the targets would be the adult seals. They eat many times more cod than the adults.' The difference is the adults have 'ate' their cod. The young haven't. The pelts of the young are marketable. If they killed the adults, then the young would starve; is that a better way to go? Could be that the seal population needs controlling in its own right. Crummy job but little different than the destruction of the eggs of the overpopulated snow geese. But then geese aren't mammals.

[oldcomputerguy]

"Your constant insistence that it is is odd and borders on obsessive."

Fine, believe anything you like.