Your number of 700 harbor seals would be approximately 5% of the total population within Puget Sound. I have read some numbers for the amount of salmon a SRKW requires on a daily basis and also a "goal" for increased availability but I do not recall a net increase number per SRKW. That is, how many more Chinook does each SRKW require over and above what they are currently able to find and eat in order to meet their needs?

Back to the recent Canadian publication which as I recall indicated that harbor seals consume (adjusted to adult equivalents) what the Orcas require (presumably in total).

All other factors remaining the same how many pinnipeds would need to be removed to provide for the Orcas? What is extremely frustrating to me having attended the Prey Working Group meetings is the seeming unwillingness to incorporate some level of pinniped removal; both immediate and ongoing.

Can the goal of adequately feeding the Orcas be achieved without pinniped management?