So, let me see if the Grumpy Vegan understands this
‘Look at them bastards,’ Forde says as he fishes for salmon and sea trout close to the ocean and to the right of an island owned by the golfing great Nick Faldo, who also fishes the Moy. ‘If they keep breeding, there will be no more fish left in the Moy,’ he adds. Anglers from both Co Mayo and across the world agree and want the Irish government to lift the ban on culling seals, which they claim is leading to the depletion of salmon stocks in the world-famous river.
Anglers want to kill seals because they take too many of the salmon and sea trout that they want to catch. And, wait!
Wading into the Moy, just 10ft from the seals, Forde says: ‘I have seen the seals actually take salmon and sea trout from the fishing rods of anglers. They are now so brazen and unafraid of man that they go up to anglers to snatch fish.’
Now, this is something that the Grumpy Vegan would like to see! A seal remove a fish from a hook with her flippers with an angry fisherman on the other end of the line trying to stop her! Talk about the one that got away!
The Grumpy Vegan is all for a cull of seals on the proviso that when their population levels are threatened the seals can kill some anglers as quid pro quo.
