Seal Culling II
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The reason they all suffer low is because their numbers rise continually and eventually reaches a point whereby illness becomes rife and food scarce, they then start dying in huge numbers and infecting others.
Case Study:
Marr Lodge, taken over by the National Trust for Scotland who do not allow any "blodsports" on their properties. Therefore they stopped the shooting of deer on the Estate.
No deer were shot for a number of years. Last year the reports of unhealthy deer started coming in. Eventually they were actually instructed not only to allow hunting again but actually to hire a "Rentokill" type company to come and cull x thousand unhealthy deer.
Deer are now to be shot anually again.
In short, culling is essential to the well being of the deer population.
I'm no expert but judging by ther numbers involved I'd be surprised if it wasn't necessary for the well being of the seals either.