Shooting deaths of five seals under investigation on Cape Cod - The Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/06/10/shooting_deaths_of_five_seals_under_investigation_ on_cape_cod/?comments=all#readerComm)

We should offer a reward for the shooter.

We should offer a reward for the shooter.

To help pay for the massive fine(s) if he/she ever gets caught?

Maybe we should all just keep quiet when we hear gunshots in the tuna fleet and realize a seal just took down a valued pogy :)

seen the seals all over chatham the other day even bopping around all the way out at the peaks

I have a (fishermen) friend on Nantucket who has formed a group called the Seal Abatement coalition and they are approaching it from a legal angle. According to them there is language in the federal law which does allow for reduction of the population in areas where it is causing danger to humans. I don't know if you have been to Great Point recently but seals have taken over the place and will chase humans. Seals have killed what surf fishing was there.
I think it is just a matter of a few years (<5) befor a human is killed from a GW shark.

Oregon kills first California sea lion of 2010 at Bonneville Dam | OregonLive.com (http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/03/odfw_kills_first_california_se.html)

this is an article on how the are eliminating seals in CA and Oregon