Well, I think man is a top predator there as well. Look at Atlantic salmon in particular. Just stop and look at the data that the new committee is looking about what's happening in Iceland, Quebec, and in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Tonnes and tonnes of Atlantic salmon are being harvested that either don't make it to our shores or are being retained for the wrong reason, in my opinion.
With regard to seabirds, just look at yesterday's announcement in Oregon. They have 15,000 cormorants at the mouth of the Columbia River. They will be culling 10,000 over the next two years. They've gone through the court process, the complaint process, and the appeal process, and they're going ahead with it. The marine corps will take out 10,000 cormorants from the mouth of the river.
Scientifically, they say, that will allow 11 million more salmon to breed in that river, because the smolts that come down the river are eaten by the cormorants. What can I say? We could do something similar, but I don't feel we have the political will. We don't have the science to back it up, either. To this day, I haven't heard a scientist who's working for the government get on a news report and say “Yes, the seals are eating all of our fish.” But they are. You know, they're eating something....