baby seals

[andyr1]

Heard something on the radio when i was driving back from work about some baby seals found on whitley beach with their heads cut off and the police were investigating!
anybody heard anything else about this?

[andyr1]

Decapitated seals found on borough beach - News Guardian

[Gazz]

Shocking that is

[northeast1]

Happens alot, seen a large male seal about 5 miles off shore with a gun shot to the head in September last year. Also in 2007 a young seal was on the steps of Shields pier alive and well but had a great hole in the side of its lower jaw from what was a gun shot.

It happens every year but still dont make it right, yes seals eat alot of fish and sometimes spoil our fishing marks but lie and let live i say.

[willywetegg]

That is a lot different Richy, I believe (whether we agree with it or not) that it is legal to shoot a seal if it is taking fish from a net. Catching a seal and cutting it's head off is not legal as they are protected. I really hope they catch the person or persons responsible.

Let's have no accusations of who did it either people, as we don't know, it could be one of a few different groups of people.

Jim.

[bozjc]

its shocking, 1 could have been a washed up accident, a few is a deliberite act of evil.

i hope the person or people responsible for this is /are caught.

this would suggest to me that they have been wandering around with a knife on them, with intent on using it, on a beach, where we spend most of our time.

[foci]

Shocking!

[codandchips]

yep

yep seals are a pest deffo down the south gare in the summer after your mackrel but thay have 2 eat thay should b jailed 4 it

[bozjc]

they are a pest at times, but it dosnt justify what happened to them.
once we set foot on the beach, we are in their back yard, their habbitat.

i cant get my head around why someone would do that to be honest.

[vicflange]

Absolutely disgraceful. I hope they catch whoever did it and string them up.

[cocomonkey19k]

it boils my p*ss why people do this. i bet the seals dont eat half as many fish as to what those netter take.

EDIT:

As I said we don't know what happened so it is not right to accuse anyone.

Jim.

[DUCKY]

shocking! hope they get caught

[01kayak]

must of been someone with a filletting knife or something very sharp disgusting thing to do jeff

[dizzydaz]

this is disgrcful why on earth would someone want to do this they have just as much right to eat as we do the person/people who did this should recive the same treatment these animals recived themselves

[johnt81]

this makes me feel sick why cut there heads off ? you hear about the ones in canada, alaska where they use a club to kill them. I dont agree with this either they are only trying to survive .