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Country Life UK
|November 30, 2022
RECENT figures that appeared in your magazine (Town & Country, October 26) showed that, off Blakeney Point in Norfolk, grey-seal pup birth numbers were 25 in 2001, a little more than 3,000 in 2019 and predicted to be 4,500 this year. Their main diet is fish and crustaceans.
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They have no natural predators in British waters. Dare I ask, therefore, what the next step will be to address this population explosion? I have an inkling that it will be ‘no action’ and thus the ‘natural’ solution will be a mass die off from starvatio
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