We're not population biologists, but we've had some excellent presentations on population management. It seems as if the seal population is healthy currently.
There are concerns that as the quota is being raised, it's being raised beyond the replacement level of the seals. There really isn't any evidence to show the seals are responsible for the depletion of the cod stocks, and it would be very hard to do a controlled study on that, somehow to cordon off a body of water, a bay or something, and measure the seals, the cod consumption, and all that sort of thing. It would be really hard to come up with those actual measurements. But there isn't any real evidence that that's the case right now.