Gardenstown seal cull abandoned amid protests

[G_j]

Source: BBC

A major wild salmon producer has said it is giving up the culling of seals after protests at a harbour in the north east of Scotland.

The Montrose-based Scottish Wild Salmon Company claimed it had been confronted by activists at Gardenstown harbour.

The company said it was removing firearms from its operations, meaning only acoustic devices would be used to drive seals away from nets.

The protest group, Sea Shepherd, expressed "delight" at the news.

Police Scotland said it was monitoring the situation.

Read more: http://m.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-27109912

[dipsydoodle]

1. I would hope so too.

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. I'm ashamed to say I didn't know the UK allowed seal culling

The same company recently bought the fishing rights for another Aberdeenshire estuary, and wanted to have a cull there too, but has backed down because of protests: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/anger-as-fisheries-firm-nets-salmon-river-rights.23775403

[flvegan]

3. Sea Shepherd.

That is all.

[LeftyMom]

4. The US does this too. There was a big fight recently about killing seals near a dam in Oregon.

Same reason, they were eating "too many" salmon, which was slightly limiting the ability of humans to do the same damn thing on a commercial scale.