Steelhead Addict, it's obvious by your above post that you have no experience in Puget Sound . Would it be better to release an exhausted chinook into the waiting teeth of a seal or try to scare the seal off? How does a slingshot aimed at a seal equate to eraditcating wolves from Yosemite? I really don't see the similiarity. I suppose if a black bear was digging through your cooler looking for your hidden snicker bars you wouldn't want to interfere with the bear's "natural" behavior. A sportfish hooked or exhausted salmon isn't part of a seals natural diet either. I agree that pepper spray and pellet guns might be a little extreme, but equating a slingshot(btw, I can barely it the ocean from a rowboat with a slingshot) to eradication of wolves in Yosemite is absurd.



[This message has been edited by salmontackler (edited 07-19-2000).]