Seals gorging themselves on a school of fry in Victoria Harbour April 17, 2021

[SpringFever2359]

Screen shots from the video I recorded today in Victoria Harbour around 5pm, by the fish and chip food truck next to Flying Otter

 

[Aces]

The things you see when you don't have a gun...

 

[Kildonan]

I have some video from around this time last year of about 20 seals surrounding and taking turns eating a school of Chinook smolts near the Big Qualicum river.

 

[searun]

But the enviro's claim salmon smolts only make up 4% of their diet??? Classic case of manipulating the data - that 4% is an average across the entire 12 months - rather than looking more closely at the diet during the smolt out-migration period where they are extremely vulnerable to predation during early ocean entry. Don't believe their BS.

 

[disco]

Must be photo shopped. There's an expert on here who claims that kind of thing doesn't happen. Guess he thinks seals eat at McDonalds.

 

[rapid]

I was involved in a project to "cull" some problem seals (legally with DFO), they were lining up under bridges at night, that have street lamps and clobbering the out migrating smolts. Basically lined up mouths open as the smolts swam into the shadow line caused by the street lamps. It was like they were pit-lamping the smolts crazy to see we whacked a dozen or so seals that fed there habitually.

 

[walleyes]

Them couple of seals killed more salmon in a day there than anyone of us will in our lifetime.

 

[SpringFever2359]

Them couple of seals killed more salmon in a day there than anyone of us will in our lifetime.

Thats what I was saying to my wife, they ate more in the 20 mins we watched than all you south Island guys will catch in a yr

 

[SpringFever2359]

But the enviro's claim salmon smolts only make up 4% of their diet??? Classic case of manipulating the data - that 4% is an average across the entire 12 months - rather than looking more closely at the diet during the smolt out-migration period where they are extremely vulnerable to predation during early ocean entry. Don't believe their BS.

Believe me ,I know thats one reason I recorded it..sad

 

[Derby]

Just like eating popcorn at a movie...