Ocean Sentry
(From straight.com) – Native fishers like Ken Malloway will be harvesting sockeye, a highly prized salmon species, until the end of August. Harbour seals are also out on the river, competing with the fishers for salmon. According to notes prepared by UBC researchers more than 200,000 seals were killed in B.C. between 1913 and 1969.
“There are many predators that the salmon are confronted with, and you can’t just start killing all the predators,” said conservationist Peter Hamilton.
“Are you going to shoot the orcas too, because they’re eating the salmon?.”
