there was a similar deal happening several years ago on the Ct. river,salmon smolts were released into the river for years at costs of millions of dollars and all they wer doing was feeding stripers,fluke and other fish as the smolts swim deep and follow the main channels out to the open sea,they were met head on by bass and such that simply picked nearly all of them off.

they did get VERY small amounts of adult salmon that returned but each salmon cost thousands each as only double digit amounts showed up in ladders.

same thing with steelhead that gather at the bottom of some dam on the west coast,along with protected sturgeon,seals decimated them both as 4,5 even 8 foot sturgeon were leaping from the water trying to evade the seals that tore open their bellies and ate very little then went after another.

the 1972 federal marine mammal act needs to be revised,as the feds always try to control us,them dammned seals need to be controlled as well.
TBVH,,I would like to see them controlled and right now.
what has to happen is for the seals to kill a few humans then they "might" act on it,there are just too many of them and something has to come to be.

as with everything it seems,things just work their way out of control and we are supposed to just let it be because of some "law".
there is not more time for games and feelings,we must act,,,Now!

thats my opinion + $ 1.50


R-P