Gary, good information; please fix your link to the LA Times article.

Scary stuff right there.

It doesn't take much of an imagination to visualize an out of control seal population contributing to what man has already done to rockfish and herring stocks to get to the point that the Department would start shutting down increasingly larger areas to recreational fishing to fix the problem.

Overstated? Perhaps, but look where NOAA is headed with the Orcas and what has happened to rockfish, lingcod, crab and shrimp seasons/limits in the last few years. And it won’t take too much influence from other recreational and environmental groups to help push that concept forward.