In this July 11, 2019 photo provided by Erin Minichiello, a herd of seals rest on a sandbar in Chatham Harbor in Chatham, Mass. Peter Howell, a founder of the Seal Action Committee, said Wednesday, July 17, that the Nantucket-based group wants Congress to amend the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act so that seals and other species can be removed from the law’s list of protected animals if their populations have sufficiently rebounded. The call comes as the region’s seal population has been blamed for drawing droves of great white sharks, which feed on them, in recent years. (Erin Minichiello via AP)
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