The Sable Islands off Nova Scotia are home to the world's largest colony of grey seals. File Photo - File photoIt’s all mentioned in a report made public March 9 by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.
They suggested scientists conduct diet analysis for all species of seals and their genetic cousins over longer periods of the year in more diverse regions than in the past and make their data publicly available by posting it on the DFO website. Bob Hardy, a fisheries consultant from Newfoundland and Labrador, told the committee DFO was reluctant to accept the idea that seals were affecting fish stocks, and ignored evidence from fishers, Indigenous peoples and seal science from other North Atlantic fishing nations.
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