Probably the most successful animal rights campaign in history shut down the east coast seal harvest,as Canada was made to be international pariahs for allowing the ‘cruel’ seal harvest...the government bowing to pressure went along with it..well they succeeded alright,the seal harvest stopped and the seal population exploded from 8000 to 400,000...but guess what?seals eat cod,lots of cod and it looks like the dwindling cod population,already in trouble from over fishing was now running the gauntlet from the huge seal population...looks like the cod are now at the point of extinction,but hey,we ‘saved the seals’,didn’t we? Yah,that’s the EAST coast ,but the same scenario is playing out on the WEST coast...salmon stocks,under pressure through gross mismanagent are facing an equally huge increase in predation- seals and no government is going to have the balls to do anything other than’study’ it...