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That's the sexiest thing I've seen all day.

This is only the beginning if the seal population keeps increasing,,,

All the shortboard surfers should think long and hard about this picture.:uhuh:

Cape Fear :uhuh:

Now if there was only Internet for sharks.

Definite business opportunity for someone.

Instead of whale watching, you could take people shark watching. Surely people would pay to see a seal go down in person like they've witnessed on Shark Week.

All the shortboard surfers should think long and hard about this picture.:uhuh:

and the one attached here...

Definite business opportunity for someone.

Instead of whale watching, you could take people shark watching. Surely people would pay to see a seal go down in person like they've witnessed on Shark Week.

Already being discussed by some down here..

Definite business opportunity for someone.

Instead of whale watching, you could take people shark watching. Surely people would pay to see a seal go down in person like they've witnessed on Shark Week.


Big bluefish got him:rotf2:

Shark porn!

I am SOOOOOOOOOO happy!!!!:love:

Seriously, I can't even tell you how happy this makes me. Like many other people, I have been talking about how this day would come for 6-8 years now, and to actually see the pictures of it going down is just awesome.

I can only hope assume that once a large group of these sharks realizes that there is an annual all you can eat seal buffet up here, that they'll be back time and time again to put the smack down on our pinniped friends.

Anyone who wants to start the seal killing boat tour...sign me up for your first tour.

and the one attached here...

Already being discussed by some down here..

Spine tingling JOY!!!

Unfortunately it is just a matter of time before the authorities start hunting the sharks because of the pressure from the "Moonbats". Seals are "cute" and Sharks are not :(

Chatham should change it's name to Amity.

and the one attached here...



Already being discussed by some down here..

Christ, that isn't the ramp at Big Cliff Pond is it? Don't tell me they have gotten into there too!!!:jump1:

Way things are going who knows?

Crazy Shark Surfing Video (http://joecartoon.atom.com/videos/911-shark_surfing)

Crazy Shark Surfing Video (http://joecartoon.atom.com/videos/911-shark_surfing)

Asshat harassing a Federally protected species on camera, and leaving a few hundred dollars worth of fishing gear dangling from its mouth, all just for kicks.

No wonder surfers are almost universally hated.

the video is horribly fake but lets not let that get in the way of whining about surfers.

Then there's the practice of initiating a possible feeding frenzy amongst other surfers by throwing bloody meat into the surf.
He's a future Darwin Award nominee/winner if ever I saw one!

I know people get all giddy over the poor little seals being eaten, but you would likely need 100 sharks feeding 24/7/365 to even put a small dent in the seal population. They're here to stay unless an open season ensues at some point.

I know people get all giddy over the poor little seals being eaten, but you would likely need 100 sharks feeding 24/7/365 to even put a small dent in the seal population. They're here to stay unless an open season ensues at some point.

Yes, but the status quo, a continually increasing seal population with no coverage / adverse coverage other than the cute little seals, is not going to do us any favors. If we can't fish the beach as in the p[ast maybe maybe the great whites can offer entertainment in the form of Pinniped Snacks. Or, with a little luck, some light gets shined on the situation. All in all, the seals are likely there to stay in large numbers REGARDLESS of what happens thanks to the Marine Mammal Protection Act thingamajig

true back beach..and the boss mans response sums it up too...
more than likely it will just be fun, for some of us to watch....in our own twisted little way...

Scotty....we may have the sixth confirmed by supper time... :uhuh:

if there is 5, or even 6 confirmed, i'd bet there is more...

and a hundred hungry ones would be OK with me... :hee:

true back beach..and the boss mans response sums it up too...
more than likely it will just be fun, for some of us to watch....in our own twisted little way...

Scotty....we may have the sixth confirmed by supper time... :uhuh:

if there is 5, or even 6 confirmed, i'd bet there is more...

and a hundred hungry ones would be OK with me... :hee:

South Africa has tons of Great Whites.

http://www.bobboozer.com/FlatWorld/images/04_01_03/cape_town/seal_island.jpg

Doesn't seem to bother the seals much?

yep Ted, a hundred or a thousand won't put a dent in the seals...but, will provide some great entertainment :hee:

only thing that will eventually hurt the seals, is some kind of epidemic of distemper, or something else, that will thin them way out...

I don't think anyone is really thinking the sharks will do anything to the seal population other than make for some excitement at the expense of a fairly hated adversary of the Cape Cod surf fisherman.

If there are 10 thousand seals on the Outer Cape (made up number as a stake in the ground), and there are ten sharks eating a seal a week for a month, that's only a half a percent of the population.

For me, personally, it is more:

(1) In the back of my mind, I'll always have the excitement of seeing those seals swimming 50 yards offshore and wondering if they are going to get whacked, and
(2) knowing there is at least something out there constraining what would otherwise be almost completely uninhibited growth in thier poplulation.....no matter how small that constraint may be

yep Ted, a hundred or a thousand won't put a dent in the seals...but, will provide some great entertainment :hee:

only thing that will eventually hurt the seals, is some kind of epidemic of distemper, or something else, that will thin them way out...

Hasn't happened in S. Africa, nor San Francisco with the sea lions. These animals have lived thousands of years like this, in consolidated, high-concentration herds. I'm not holding my breath for some epidemic to occur.

An A-10 Warthog strafing the herds would be the only solution.

Funny, there was a brief article about the sharks on Chatham in the NY Post yesterday, I was laughing hysterically that it made the NY Post.

The funniest part of poor little seals is that Chatham is going to spend 300million dollars for a sewerage plant to keep the saltwater embayments clean all the while 6-8000 seals are crapping all over the sandbars. The population of Chatham is only 6-8000 people. It would make sense to me to have every tree hugger take a seal home with them to thin out the population

The funniest part of poor little seals is that Chatham is going to spend 300million dollars for a sewerage plant to keep the saltwater embayments clean all the while 6-8000 seals are crapping all over the sandbars. The population of Chatham is only 6-8000 people. It would make sense to me to have every tree hugger take a seal home with them to thin out the population

Orleans prolly gonna spend even more.....
Old Goat..they need some of that old cape cod common sense on them boards...but I think that has gone the way of the past too.
And they don't like questions either, we have found out over here...
they even had to come up with a "good nitrogen/bad nitrogen" answer to baffle things even more....and they keep changing info...
typical govt. project....just pay pay pay and shut up...
I still have not figured out why we been pumping everything into Skaket Marsh the last 20 years...great place to build a chit plant.....
and the clamming went straight to hell from Rock Harbor alll the way down thru Brewster right after.... and some strange looking grasses grew quick..

Now we are gonna sewer even more into there..
pump the chit outta the Pleasant Bay side over to the CCBay side...

:confused:

injuneers and environutz is amazing sometimes....:jump1:

But...back to Seals and their poo...

gonna be a trainload more of it coming, thats for sure.

I am jealous of the sharks.
though this will probably just concentrate the vermin a little tighter

Seriously, I can't even tell you how happy this makes me. Like many other people, I have been talking about how this day would come for 6-8 years now, and to actually see the pictures of it going down is just awesome.

I can only hope assume that once a large group of these sharks realizes that there is an annual all you can eat seal buffet up here, that they'll be back time and time again to put the smack down on our pinniped friends.

Anyone who wants to start the seal killing boat tour...sign me up for your first tour.

Is this what you were thinking of...Great White Shark Trips--Chatham / Monomoy Island (http://boston.craigslist.org/sob/boa/1364875655.html)

YOUR FRICKIN KIDDIN ME

Images: Brave Seals Play As Sharks Lurk Nearby - Photos - WCVB Boston (http://www.thebostonchannel.com/slideshow/news/20796699/detail.html)

"the brave seals"

omfg:smash::smash::smash::smash::smash::smash:

I think I'm gonna hurl stand back

I think they forgot to include the picture of the brave seal posted by Karl F resubmitted here.

An A-10 Warthog strafing the herds would be the only solution.

:biglaugh:

30MM cannons would be very effective!

Sharks extend their visit in Chatham | CapeCodOnline.com (http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090909/NEWS/909090314)


and most likely, here to stay....

Sharks extend their visit in Chatham | CapeCodOnline.com (http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090909/NEWS/909090314)


and most likely, here to stay....
Now there are ten to twenty: They do check the internet.
Seriously I have always wondered how fish know where the bait is.

:fishin: would that be awesome to catch one from the beach

Lets see which Federally protected species do we kill...
Maybe this will be the on the agenda of a Town Hall meeting, once the losses in beach revenue are counted. I believe if the sharks keep people off the beaches they may be the first to go. I may be cynical but I think its going to take big losses in tourist dollars to get some one to figure a way to "thin the herd" with the seals and not freak out the treehuggers. Does anyone know if they still pupped on Monomoy now that its attached? We may need more Coyotes too.

They won't do a damn thing until somebody gets attacked, and then it will be the sharks that get shot!
Like Blitz, I've been telling people this for quite some time now, and now it's finally happening.
Next will be the "scavenger" sharks like tigers and bulls, and then we'll really have a fish free-for-all in our local waters.

Maybe when the communities lose their shirts due to a sharp drop in tourism $$, they might think about the correct humane thing to do.... like explosive fish for the seals:splat:

Unfortunately the typical "powers-that-be" is to do a quick fix. That would mean get rid of the sharks. It's cheaper to get rid of up to 20 sharks that 6000 seals.

I say let the sharks have their fun and if we can help them in any way, so be it!

:rotf2:

really now...

town hall would never decide on which FEDERALLY Protected species to kill...

they will do a lot of long winded talking about it...maybe... at some point, have several "study groups" of retiree's with nothing better to do, with little or no expertise in such matters...hold "meetings" invite State and Federal folks, who will basically say... these species are protected... our hands, as well as your hands are tied, there is little or nothing that can be done...

Sound At All Familiar????

kinda like the bullchit we have been going through with the poster child of Federally Protected Species?? the Great Lakes Piping Plover, et al?.... and last but not "Least".. (only in name) ... the Least Tern??

Town Hall's can't even run themselves right down here..... they ain't gonna tangle with Fed protected species.....:uhuh:

I lived on the west coast for a little bit. Here is how it goes.
Sharks and seals stay.
People can't use the beach.
Maybe as we slide into being a third world nation lawless abandon will take over and anything goes, the earthy crunchy people will lose their clout. Machetes and louisville sluggers on the beach. . . . oh well it's nice to dream.:wall:

Think into next year when there's major beach closures and the already low numbers get even lower for local business.Plovers,sharks,and seal poo closures will surely drown the cape in the future.Sad and nothing can be done about it.I have no solid info about the numbers mentioned previously but the numbers everywhere are down.

cool

I would totally pay to see a great white attack a seal, somebody do this!

Mention the words "seal hunt" and a dozen organizations just like this one will pop up:

Grey Seal Conservation Society (http://www.greyseal.net/)

The great grey seal debate really has to come down to two choices,,,

large caliber handguns or high powered rifles.

Can't we all just get along and decide?