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We actually protect the seals because they are more like us than the fish. Mammalism. We personify them as somewhat human because they are kinda like us. They breathe air, and sort of have some humanistic behaviors, therefore we are much more likely to protect them, then say a whiting....
Why do people get so fired up about whales and manatees, but could give two cents regarding a herring or an anchovy? Same principal, the more something is like you, the more you want to protect it.
IMHO far more damage has been done by dragger type vessels destroying habitat over more than a hundred years than any type of seal. seals are where they are now and hunt where they hunt now because we destroyed their other habitats. we knew of the dangers of dragger type fishing almost since its inception and yet the rampant destruction went on. has more to do with us as a species allowing it to go on than it does for the seal.
you want cod to live forever, well maybe you shouldn't have pulled a dragger over their grounds for a hundred plus years!
blame the seals, blame global warming, on and on it goes, only thing we truly have to blame is us.....
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