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Quotes from Grey Seals and the Farne Islands — Grace Hickling

1908–1986 England

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These youngsters appear to have little fear of man for Jack Shiel tells the story of how, on a day in late autumn when they were line fishing for haddock, a young seal kept helping himself to the best fish while the men were taking the others from the hooks.

Grey Seals and the Farne Islands (1962)

To-day, although numbers of fur seals are still taken—in addition to the Pribilof cull some 30,000 yearlings of the South African fur seal are killed each year—the decrease in the number of whales, and the increasing demand for edible oil has meant a growing emphasis on the exploitation of seals for oil.

Grey Seals and the Farne Islands (1962)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Grace Hickling (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.