Seals’ Fondness for Salmon Brings Them Into Conflict with Fishermen

One sun-filled afternoon in August, I set out by boat around the Seven Hogs – na Seacht gCeanna – off the Maharees on the northern side of the Dingle peninsula in Kerry. The clutch of small islands, uninhabited by humans for more than half a century, rises up from the Atlantic Ocean like little dumplings, each of varying shape and size, from the largest, Oileán tSeanaigh (St Seanach’s Island) to the smallest, Oileán Imill (island on the edge). Scattered between...
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