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So what? Run em over.

The end is near. All is lost. The seals are distressed.

When I walk out my front door, I disturb birds. You can hear them fly around in the trees. I bet if I disturbed them enough I might disrupt their mating patterns.

Hey, I'm disturbed by this article. Stop it!!

Just put some Ritlin in the water and drug them.

Yes but did they do a study on who is more distressed the seals or the fellow who just ate at the ship buffet? /sarcasm

I have the task of sitting through these studies/seminars of distressed sea life and although Marine Biology is not the reason I am attending they are well done as scientist I notice they always need more of the same.

Interesting stuff but there sure is a lot of studies in this field and sometimes they do hit a big problem and ratify it without it being brought to our attention.

I am still wondering why the North East Coast does not have sea lions and they have an over population on the west coast so much so that they do not rescue them they let them parish when called to help by an avg. citizen who finds one. I found one once that was shot in the head and they are so over populated they don't even put out the man power to remove a carcass. Unless the park ranger wants to and no they are not interested in getting into removing dead over sized Sea Lions.

I find it interesting that in the article (I read it fast) that it was a concern of a tribal official and was wondering is it because he cares about the creatures habitat or is it interfering with hunting season.

The food trophic food supply and other problems leading to malnutrition and illness is real as I saw what uterine cancer that had gone through out a body of a seal looked like. Very graphic but I thought it is happening to humans to with poor diets and stress. However the seminars on these studies never have a closure at the end just more info and studies needed.

Hopefully the Marine Biologists studies can someday correlate with what is happening on land to humans.

They did some nutritional studies on other upper trophic and to preserve them they put the fish into nitrogen (the real real cold stuff) while alive and a wiggling.

Like I said I am there for other work reasons but some seminars are pretty interesting.

Study: Cruise Ships Distress Harbor Seals

GOOD... but not as distressing as a .30-30 to the head.