The seals and sea lions are out of control. I watched them wolfing down whole sockeye during the run. Hundreds of seals just lining the lower fraser river picking them off. Apparently they've been seen by my buddies all the way up to the upper vedder river picking off the salmon in the pools. Thats probably 100 km from the ocean. Something is wrong if you have seals way up in the rivers gorging on wild salmon. I think the plan will go ahead. I hope they cull the ones who come up river like they have done in Washington on the Columbia river. The seals were depleting winter steelhead and salmon stocks just gorging on fish trying to get up fish ladders at the dam. Fortunately we don't have any dams on the fraser but salmon stack up to the mouths of these smaller streams waiting for rain and the seals just whack and stack em.
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