Like I have told Slab, my uncle used to shoot seals with his old 97 Winchester 12 gauge pump and then he would harpoon them and cut off the snout. The State of Washington Dept. Fisheries paid a bounty on seals then...in the 50's. It is true and some day I will find the documentation to prove it. WDFW denies it today but I was a little kid on the boat when he did that and even though I was little I remember. Right now sea lions eat more salmon on the Columbia than sports catch and I bet if we could count we would find that they eat more than the commercial catch too.