Shannon Mouland steadied himself in an aluminum boat, shotgun raised, as a thick-billed murre skittered above the slate-gray waters of the North Atlantic. Boom! And the bird cartwheeled into the sea.

The head of the Rod and Gun Club in Lewisporte says the area's seabird population could be at risk, because of a lack of enforcement on local coastlines. Once it's gone, how do you get it back? - ...