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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 10 years 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.
