Yes, it's a short answer to a long time. I agree.
Right from early childhood, I've spent my time fishing on the coast in and around some of the very same environments that are now observing this tremendous.... They are basically being overwhelmed by pinnipeds.
This is something that has occurred through the 1990s, and particularly into the 2000s, to where we find ourselves now, so much so that there are examples that I can refer to.
In Campbell River, for example, there are angler groups that have been involved in chinook net-pen rearing activities. They've done that for many years. Recently they have encountered problems with pinnipeds coming into the river area where those net pens are. Basically, the Quinsam hatchery, which funds and supports that activity, said that it won't do it any longer because pinnipeds are interfering with the ability to do that.
There are many very small and large examples all over the coast where those kinds of things are happening as a direct result of populations of pinnipeds moving into areas and just expanding in such large numbers.