NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]

LISBON - A baby seal has been found near a beach south of Lisbon on Friday, after it swam thousands of miles from the north-Atlantic in search for food.

"The two-month old seal must have jumped in the ocean somewhere in Canada or Greenland to look for food and got lost," said Elio Vicente, who is treating the seal at Zoomarine, a water theme park in the south of Portugal.

The hooded seal, named after its large elastic nasal cavity, suffered minor injuries from the trip and should be sent back to the cold waters of the north-Atlantic as soon as she recovers, Vicente said.

Another baby seal was seen adrift in the Portuguese islands of the Azores recently but has not yet been caught.

Yep we let the Potugese come over here and scrap the bottom of the Nose, Tail and Flemish cap of our continental shelf as well as inside the 200 mile Econonomic trade off zone so much so that the seals have to migrate to their continental shelf to eat.

I use this post to further what I think should happen with the seal harvest.

The problem as I see it is the first come first serve quotas system.

-Quotas need to be allocated per sealer or boat.
-The entire seal needs to be landed so that
the rotting carcasses aren't left to starve the ocean of oxygen.
-By mandating that the entire seal be landed the unsightly blood guts and carcass will all be handled onboard the boats and remove the propaganda photo ops from the Pro Vegetarian Animal Right's Activists.
-Sealers won't be able to high grade by throwing back female seals in a bid to get only male seals for their valuable penises as the ARA's are now accusing our sealers of doing.
-By Mandating the entire carcass be landed inspectors can check all of the seals to ensure they were dispatched humanely.
-By eliminating the first come first serve quotas there will be no need for sealers to run around killing as many seals as possible as fast as possible.
-By Mandating that the entire carcass be landed we could develop a animal, fish, food industry for our mink farms, aquaculture and pet food industry.
-By allocating quotas to the sealers or boats the season could be extended hence making it harder for the ARA to protest and interfere with this legal humane hunt.
-By mandating that all of the seal be landed the seal will be pelted onboard the boat and hence the chances of a seal being pelted alive would be eliminated.
-By Alloting quotas per sealer or boat we won't get a repeat of what happened in the gulf this year where by they had a quota of 20,000 and ended up killing 90,000.

Also the rule which doesn't allow shot guns to be used should be eliminated since we no longer use lead shot which was the problem with shot guns for hunting.