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There's a certain hierarchy for what gets to live and how to decided which animals are killed when two species come into conflict.
From highest priority to "save":
-Arbitrary land species that some tree hugger petitioned to get "protected"
-Cute animals
-Primates
-Other mammals
-Random species picked up by local/national news
-Everything else
There's an arbitrary list of when it's ok to kill animals for the sake of the above protected animals:
-They are scary (sharks)
-They are annoying (all bugs)
-Rodents
-Non-cute animals (Like killing crows to protect plovers)
-Any animal that a large group of the pub won't make too much of an outcry
The above is just based on my observations. As you can see, it's all arbitrary and "what's best for the environment" has no actual weight to who lives or dies. I think the above list applies around the globe.
In this case, sharks are scary and not cute. My money is that the seals will win that fight.
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