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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 7 years, 8 months ago“’What gets me about the Seal Abatement Coalition is the sense of entitlement,’ says Blair Perkins, who grew up on the island and now runs Shearwater Excursions, a whale-watch business. ‘They’re entitled to the fish and the seals aren’t. They’re recreational fishermen, and it’s interfering with their playtime. I don’t understand that at all.’ The seals, he says, ‘need to haul out somewhere. They’re at sea sometimes for days or weeks at a time. They just want to survive as they have for thousands of years. To say that they’re interfering with my recreation is just arrogant.’”
Gray Seals | The Most Controversial Animal in New England - New England TodayGray seals once were all but eliminated from New England waters. Now they attract great white sharks, thousands of tourists; and enrage fishermen, who wish them gone.
