Don't get me wrong I would also rather that the seals are not killed but because no one wants to take the enishitive to make shure it does not happen again to other spicies or the seals ie. eating less fish, reduce pollution, cleaning streams where fish spawn, banning fish farms which spread diseases to wild fish fry, then we have to deal with the situation in other means which saddly harms the seals. So untill people all over the world smarten up situations like the ones with the seals will only increase in occurance. People are gready, and untill we stop putting our wants first thousands of animals will die, and eventually entire species. Our mas-consumption results in casses like the seals. Everyone contributes to the problem, right now as you sit by your computer you are contributing to the problem. That computer one day will end up across the world in a dump in Asia, there the led in the moniter will leak into the water and end up all over the world and it will kill the fish the seals eat, therefor making the preditor prey relationship off balance. And because people will never give up fish the seals will die. That is only one of millions of examples of how everyone is responsible for the seals fate. So when you bash Canada you are bashing them for dealing with a problem you helped cause. I get mad at all the coments pointed at Canada when everyone is to blame. Look in the mirror before you point the finger and think about everytime you drove your car, did not recycle a plastic bottle, or taken the ferry or other type of boat. All these things slowly person by person doom the seal, and like wise all animals and creatures on the earth. Think about the fish that did not die, and the animals and fish that eat them. Think about the baluga's in the St.Lawrence who eat fish like the seal. When balugas die they are clasified as toxic waste from all the pollution we dump into their enviroment, which they ingest when they eat fish. The whales are so bad of because the fish are poluted one time, the seal eats the fish and ads to the amount of pollution in its system its now two times polluted, the whales (killer whales in particullar) eat the seals and the fish which are polluted therefor the pollution acumilates inside them. Pollution from Asia, Europe, Canada, The United Sates, all over the world, needs to be controlled before situations like the seals can be stoped. Dont dis the solution to the problem dis the cause....People.