A woman, aged in her 70s, remains in hospital after she was bitten by a seal while walking her dog in the seaside town of Port Fairy at the weekend.
Senior forest and wildlife officer Ian Westthorpe said the 100-kilogram seal had been at the Battery Lane boat ramp for the past four months."Seals can be unpredictable and, despite their cumbersome appearance, can move quickly over short distances."Under wildlife regulations, dogs are not permitted within 50 metres of a seal on land or in the water, and people should not come within 30 metres of a seal on land.
"The feeding of seals has got to stop," he said."Don't feed the wildlife. It's a recipe for disaster." "As long as you're handing out food, there will be a problem," he said."Shooting or removing the seal won't solve it." At the time, Barwon South West program manager of compliance operations Mark Breguet said the seal had developed a"potentially dangerous" dependency on humans.
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