Overpopulation, in the ecological sense which is my world of work, results in starvation as there are too many of them and too little food. Your "overpopulation" is a social construct as in "they are eating my fish". i don't disagree that the pinniped populations have to be at least temporarily reduced to aid in recovery of salmon but salmon recovery (at least as practiced in the eastern Pacific) is focused on controlling/fixing everything other than fisheries.
And yes, sometimes one strays in a position to maintain income, health insurance and such. But, as many on here know, there are folks on the inside working hard for change through a variety of channels. More would be accomplished by dealing with the Generals that pissing and moaning about the Privates.
So you tell me in one post that sea lions and seals are not "over
populated" and then in another you say that you "don't disagree
that the pinniped population have to be at least temporarily reduced
to aid in salmon recovery" . As with a lot of fisheries employees I have
talked to or heard from it sounds like you are talking out of more
then one side of your mouth. And I have given flack to more then one
"general" and it does about as much good as talking to "the privates".
Bob,
Surely you're not so dense that you cannot see that there are many shades of gray between black and white. Trying to explain that there are different perspectives does not equal "talking out more than one side of your mouth." From a fisherman's narrow perspective, any predator that eats fish that might otherwise be caught by fishermen is a predator that needs to be controlled.
You know that your back-handed insults about "fishermen's narrow perspective"
says basically that ALL fishermen have this narrow perspective about other fish
eating predators being needed to be controlled is total B.S. It's the kind of
response I'd expect from you and the other members of "the good old boys club".
I only feel that other predators need to be controlled when numbers exceed the
carrying capacity of the food source.
As far as "surely you can't be so dense " is a passive aggressive way to insult
someone who doesn't agree with you. "Shades of grey" is a pretty weak way to
justify saying two different things that contradict each other posted by the same
person in the same thread isn't just lying.
I have as little respect for how members of "the good old boys club" respond to
criticism as I have for your self serving arguments.
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