Climate change is impacting marine animal distributions, fish and mammals, right around the world. There's ample evidence of that. In some cases it's extreme, and in some cases it's minor.
Let me say a few words about the west coast first. In the case of pinnipeds, there have been massive increases in California sea lions in the Salish Sea, off southern British Columbia. In some ways, they could be called an invasive species: They were never here before, and they're big fish eaters—big salmon eaters—so this impact that's taking place is changing the predator-prey relations.
On the east coast, the best example of this, or probably the most extreme, is the expansion of grey seals. I did a lot of work...I spent half my life, it seemed, in Placentia Bay for a period of almost two decades some years ago, but I never, ever saw a grey seal. I haven't been there recently, but people I know there will tell me, and some of the others who are more knowledgeable of the current situation there could speak to this perhaps, that grey seals are now seen on the south coast of Newfoundland, and may even be colonizing there.
There you have another example of where climate is changing. Seals will respond to temperature in the ocean and also to prey distributions. If they can find those two favourable factors, they will move there, especially—and this is key—if their populations are expanding. It's like anything else: When a population expands in numbers, it's going to try to expand in area. They're not all going to stay in the same place as their populations increase.
Both of those things are happening. It's less clear what's happening on the northeast coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, because those are ice seals—the harp seals and hooded seals—and they may move north. I'm not sure about that.