Thread: Inshore fishing under threat?

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

They seem to like variety. I have watched them at the Waiau river mouth in Nth canty catching flounders. They swam all the way from the sea into lake Mckerrow and cleaned out the sea run trout - a food source that is not natural to them, so they obviously can learn and adapt.
In four years time there will be twice as many as now, what will we do then ?

NO the major part of their diet is squid off the continental shelf.. variety has nothing to do with anything. Like Berg said they will eat hoki at the back of a trawler, that is opportunism just as is catching a flounder, my guess they would also eat a trout and a herring and a salmon but the major part of the fur seals diet is caught off the continental shelf and it is squid.

I have no idea what we will do in 4yrs time, lets face that IF your guess is correct ... but to go out and slaughter a heap of seals because a seal is seen eating a flounder or a salmon or supposedly cleaned out the entire sea run trout population of lake Mckerrow...nah.