[novachick]

cammi_d cammi_d:

Just 150 years ago there were 9-10 million harp seals in Arctic waters. Numbers shrank to around three million, because pups were killed in vast numbers by fishermen and hunters, who claimed that the seals were depleting fish stocks. The skins from the pups were sold to the fur trade and made into coats and other clothing.
In the eighties and early nineties, pressure from environmental groups led to a ban on seal hunting, and a recovery in the seal population, with numbers now at a level of between 4.8 and 5.4 million according to Canadian estimates.
How many would be left without that pressure?

So how are the cod stocks off the coast of Newfoundland doing today?( sarcasm fully intended here) Am I blaming the depletion of cod stocks on seals of course not, it was a result of over fishing brought on by an inept government. That said what do you suppose seals eat hmmmmmmm? Allowing seals to proliferate with out any counter measures
taken will inevitably spell doom for what cod there is left. If we allow seals to proliferate to the number you state from 150 years ago that too shall be a man made error in judgement. Wow instead of dying such a horrible death as imagined by the anti-seal hunt proponents they will just starve to death.

[sasquatch2]

Yeah everybody knows harp seals dine at Wendy's, McPigs, Montana's, Timmies............

[novachick]

sasquatch2 sasquatch2:

Yeah everybody knows harp seals dine at Wendy's, McPigs, Montana's, Timmies............

[novachick]

3 sealers died earlier today. 2 in their 50's one in his early 20's. Damn

[cammi_d]

Okay I must find some other topic, as much as I like discussing the senseless slaughter of baby seals for coats and stuff I am sure there are other topics I can find that will annoy you all.
The number of seals has halved in the last 150 years and the cod numbers are dropping as well, I guess it has nothing to do with over fishing of your waters. Maybe you should look at your fishing practices and set up fish farms that would employ the people who currently bash the seals. We have a thriving fish farming industry farming Deep Sea tuna for the japanese market, they have even started breeding them in captivity. This industry employs a lot of otherwise unemployed people. If they miss the old days you could give them a club and throw them in the water with the cod and they could bash them.

[Hyack]

Now you're on to fish farming eh. Maybe you should read this!

[Gunnair]

cammi_d cammi_d:

Okay I must find some other topic, as much as I like discussing the senseless slaughter of baby seals for coats and stuff I am sure there are other topics I can find that will annoy you all.

$1:

Doubt it.

$1:

The number of seals has halved in the last 150 years and the cod numbers are dropping as well, I guess it has nothing to do with over fishing of your waters. Maybe you should look at your fishing practices and set up fish farms that would employ the people who currently bash the seals. We have a thriving fish farming industry farming Deep Sea tuna for the japanese market, they have even started breeding them in captivity. This industry employs a lot of otherwise unemployed people. If they miss the old days you could give them a club and throw them in the water with the cod and they could bash them.

lots of negative stuff about fishfarms on the west coast.

http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Oceans/Aquaculture/Salmon/

http://www.westcoastaquatic.ca/article_ ... at0205.htm

http://thetyee.ca/News/2007/05/24/FishFarm2/

You'll notice the common thread here - potential negative environmental impacts as opposed to the need for more manpower for seal killing.

Idiot.

[Wally_Sconce]

You know how you can hire a chartered fishing boat in Vancouver to take you fishing for salmon, eh?

Can I do the same with the baby seal clubbing?

[cammi_d]

Maybe you should send a team to Australia to see how fish farming is done. We farm tuna and king fish in our gulfs.
Anyhooo enough of this I have to go out and shoot a kangaroo for dinner, did you know Australia is the only country that kills and eats its national emblem as well as selling its meat in supermarkets. lmao.

[cammi_d]

You can hire a boat to go seal hunting? hmm thats got to be a joke.
Why dont rednecks spend much time in prison.... they all have the same dna and dental records lololololololol

[Hyack]

cammi_d cammi_d:

Maybe you should send a team to Australia to see how fish farming is done. We farm tuna and king fish in our gulfs.
Anyhooo enough of this I have to go out and shoot a kangaroo for dinner, did you know Australia is the only country that kills and eats its national emblem as well as selling its meat in supermarkets. lmao.

Australian fish farming 2003

[Wally_Sconce]

Here about the Australian thay imigrated to Canada?

His first day at work, a coworker takes him around to meet everyone, and he got a real funny look on his face everytime someone said " This is a nice job, you get to F#CK the dog a lot."

Eventually in the lunchroom, someone asks the Australian how he was liking his first day at work.

The Australian says " Well......It's different in Canada. For example,in Australia, I f#cked Kangaroos, but I didn't tell anyone about it"

[cammi_d]

I looked at that Australian fish farming site, there doesnt appear to be any data just opinion, so I can't really comment. Don Staniford now works for Friends of Clayoquot Sound.
Mr Staniford is probably the wrong person to use on as an authority on fish farming as he has been found to be less than truthful when talking about fish farms, see Creative Farming Company Ltd.v Staniford (Canada BC) where he was found to be guilty on many counts and financially liable. lolololol
However his motives were probably honourable.

[cammi_d]

what is this cammi v Canada lmao (One voice singing in the dark One voice...)

[Gunnair]

cammi_d cammi_d:

what is this cammi v Canada lmao (One voice singing in the dark One voice...)

Confrontational cluelessness is your one trick pony.

Wow.