Not for the weak of heart
 

This is what we can expect soon on the cape beaches and harbors if we don't get a reasonable seal management policy.

Video Of Sea Lions. They Have Taken Over Pier 39 - iReport.com

I am feeling sick

%$%$%$%$in vermin :smash:

Unatural balance
 

Nature likes balance.
One species tends to "balance" off another species.
Clearly, the sea lion population has risen to an unnatural balance.
I just wonder if a natural or unnatural phenomenon is going to reset this balance.

Speaking of "imbalance," I'd like to reference this editorial that appeared in the Cape Cod Times.

Seal protections create imbalance | CapeCodOnline.com

I was there Saturday and I almost puked!!!

The smell was horrible and all the people could say was "look how pretty they look".

The seals were fighting trying to get on the dock and some of them were all scraped up and had visible wounds.

I took a picture on my iphone of one of the cute ones ;)

:rotflmao:

soooooo, why so many on the docks???

could it be that they are staving off their natural selection? where's the underwater vid of ALL the Orcas/Great Whites that are missing out on their meaty morsels and being denied their forage by man's hapless intervention!!??!!

i say kick 'em back into tha DRINK where they can meet their Fate!!
only the swiftest swimmers survive, BAYYYY BEEEEE!! :bl: :bl: :bl: :bl:

bang some spikes in those piers and then cuts the heads off

Keep in mind that this was a gradual process.
It began with only a few sea lions sunning themselves on ONE dock and as more and more began to follow suit, they took over more of the pier. The state didn't wouldn't do anythng to discourage them so they eventually took over the entire pier. Now it's considered a "tourist attraction" but that would be like making the local town dump or wastewater treatment facility a tourist attraction: they all STINK to high heavens.

Oh, and thankfully we don't have the same environmental yahoos running things here..... oh, wait, I forgot our little piping plover fiasco. I guess we do have the same yahoos here as well.:smash:

I go to SF every year and we always make the pilgrimage down there with the kids to see the sea lions. I guess Im one of the guilty ones.

From what I read, the sea lions all showed up after the 89' quake 20 years ago. I also read that there were originally more but only a "few" stayed behind.

It is funny that a nice looking restaurant is located directly above where the lions are....I can only imagine eating at that place with that horrible smell.

Yes they are a threat to our beaches and coastal areas for the reasons cited in the Cape Cod Times article ... need to promote that one ...

A few M-80's should get'em movin'

Yep ...

They are probably on the dock because some old folks thought it wold be cute to feed the GD things. Just like the local parks and the canadian geese. I can see them sitting there throwing little herring in thier mouths.

hmm hint winter into spring south east side of Block Island across st. from the Spring House.. Its called seal cove for a reason and its their natural environment... lol sorry had to say it my ex wife and I walked down to the beach there to see the seals so... I happen to like seals and most other things in the ocean... but dont worry they did release that great white this spring in gansett not even half mile from scarborough they got in the fish trap.. seal population up= sharks eat more hmmmm big reel a fight chair and fish on... lol

the docks are not that close to a restaurant and you're talking Fishermans Wharf, a MAJOR tourist attraction. there are tens of thousands of people on those docks. shops, restaurants all over there. I've never noticed a smell at all. The seal lions are not there year round, but I think mostly in the winter months.

My companies HQ is in SF and I stay at the Fisherman's Whalf Hyatt. I was there 2 weeks ago and it was fine. I didn't see any seals or sea lions. Lot of hookers though:)

look real close, things are not sometimes as they seem.
:eek5:

was gonna say the same thing

Attended a Lecture Last Night
 

Related to these damn critters. Some nice dead seal photos.

Jaws Revisited: The Great White Shark in New England

Dr. Greg Skomal, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries

This presentation will highlight the efforts of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program to study the ecology and life history of the great white shark. It will center on the recent occurrence of this highly elusive species in Massachusetts waters and the first-time use of advanced technology to examine its behavior and movements in the Atlantic.

They filmed it and will have it available online in a couple of weeks at the following link:
http://forum-network.org/search/node...and%20Aquarium