The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is without a doubt the most incompetent, most mismanaged and most ridiculous bureaucratic department of the Government of Canada. For years I have referred to them as the Doofus Department or the Department of Fishy Business. With their bevy of biostitutes and their legion of swivel servants, the DFO have overseen the near total destruction of commercial fisheries on both the East and the West coasts of Canada. I call DFO scientists ?biostitutes? because they provide the ?science? to justify the political policies of DFO. It was these biostitutes who said that the Northern Cod populations were healthy right up to the day the fisheries crashed. The cod fishery was so devastated by over-fishing that it will never recover, the result of a combination of bad science and bad politics. They had not learned their lessons from the sixties when the DFO experts said the same thing about the pilot whales that Canada was slaughtering by the tens of thousands to feed to mink. One day the pilot whales disappeared and the biostitutes mumbled something about fluctuations of ocean currents leading to a temporary movement of the whales elsewhere. The trouble is no one else ever saw them elsewhere and they never returned to Newfoundland. It is this same Doofus Department that we are now expected to trust to ?manage? the harp seals. And now we have another shallow brained Doofuscrat by the name of Roger Simond graciously stating that Sir Paul