Plan to cull 70,000 grey seals gets Senate panel's approval - Politics - CBC News: "There were an estimated 104,000 of the animals living in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence as of 2010, the Senate committee said in a news release.
The report also recommends setting up a bounty system to compensate hunters, but it didn't say how much the bounty should be. There is no market for grey seal pelts.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) blames the seals for preventing cod stocks from recovering in the Gulf.
Acting fisheries minister Gail Shea is under pressure from the fishing industry to do something about the stalled cod recovery in the Gulf, where there's indirect scientific evidence suggesting hungry grey seals are to blame.
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