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J-golden

01-23-2009 10:20 PM

but i agree we should start at the cape and move north. ship in whitey and ring the dinner bell

quick decision

01-24-2009 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by maddmatt (Post 655236)

i'll go naked and beat them with a broken hockey stick! the feds can have all the backhair they want.

wait till these things show up in montauk, those guys don't play! there'll be seal bodies everywhere!

I saw seals last fall in Montauk. I wonder if there are more sharks in those waters to keep the numbers down.

Raven

01-24-2009 07:22 AM

save the blood !

every time you see seals -> throw some their way..

as sharks can smell a drop of blood from 5 kilometers away

which is a little over three miles.. :uhuh:

Clogston29

01-24-2009 08:53 AM

just look at the amount of seals on the rocks of south africa where all those great white videos are taken. sharks are never going to control the seal population to a level that we as fisherman will be happy with. they, sharks, are not that plentiful and there would be no survival advantage to them to move in and wipe out the population. at most, just enough of them will move in to take advantage of the current population IMO.

montauk is warmer, that's why there are fewer seals there IMO.

Raven

01-24-2009 09:14 AM

C-29

Excellent point....

keeperreaper

01-24-2009 01:39 PM

We need a terrible disease to run rampant through the seal population.

maddmatt

01-26-2009 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman (Post 657670)

You will never get the environmental wackos to get on the culling the seal heard...never.

i guess we need an environmental wacko season...2 per day, 28 inches, no closed season. the caliber must be .223 or larger. sunday hunting allowed.

Nebe	01-26-2009 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by likwid (Post 657793)

Neither.

http://www.maxxgraphix.net/modules/o...%20boats-s.jpg

Where the f()&k do you think Cod in supermarkets comes from? Your ass?

think about baby cod.. they are little snickers bars floating around the bottom... dogfish love snickers bars.

RIROCKHOUND

01-26-2009 11:12 AM

Absolutely.
There was a Canadian fisheries scientist names 'RAM' Ran Myers who gave a great talk about how Dogfish are a niche predator, and when you remove Cod, they come in, prey on small cod AND out compete them for the limited food supply....

similar to Cormorants and juvenile winter flounder!

likwid

01-27-2009 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Nebe (Post 658657)

think about baby cod.. they are little snickers bars floating around the bottom... dogfish love snickers bars.

Think about the fact that cod end mesh sizes weren't increased until not too long ago.

Doesn't anyone pay any real attention to the fishery?
Or do we just all want to blame something else?

Cod has been collapsing for over 20 years now. What was the 'blame of the week' then? Not dogfish. Or seals.

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