In La Jolla people-versus-seals battle, tide has yet to turn

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1. Tagged for interest. The Children's Pool is where I first made contact with the Pacific Ocean.

I was three years old. My family had just rented an apartment near there after moving out from Kansas.

My friend who is a commercial fisherman has made a prediction about what will happen there: Seals will prevail politically for a while, until the big sharks start showing up in larger numbers. Sooner or later one will mistake a human at a nearby beach for their favorite food.

For those unfamiliar with the world of commercial fishing, people in that industry are not fond of seals or sea lions. If you catch a fish of any size and it gets bitten even slightly by a mammal, you cannot sell any of it on the commercial market. Just yesterday I bought a big chunk of thresher shark from the guy at about 1/10 the going commercial price.