So, now we have seals wandering the streets of a Newfoundland town and all Fisheries and Oceans is saying that it's "monitoring" the situation. It's also warning people it's illegal to interfere with a wild animal.
Gee, thanks. For nothing. Apparently, the seals could not get back into the ocean when it froze over, so are now starving on people's driveways and front lawns. If dealing with this mess is not the job of Fisheries and Oceans, what is? There is no need to "monitor" this mess, anyone with eyes can see that yes, there are definitely seals trapped on land. What needs to happen is that the ice be broken up, the seals rounded up safely and brought to the water's edge so they can escape.
About 25 years ago, I was Director of Communications for Fisheries and I can tell you, this would not have been my strategy. I would have called on the coast guard to break up the ice and our scientists to advise about the safest way to move the seals to open water. Don't know who's running that shop now, but they're effing up big time.
Boy, the feds have no clue what they are doing these days.
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