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While I’m certainly no expert, it seams to me that the presence of the seals and/or migration of baitfish to the offshore shoals due to other reasons has prevented large amounts of bait (sandeels and silverside) from populating the shorelines of the outer Cape. Without that, the whole food chain breaks down. Rather than roam the barren waters looking for whatever food they can find, the bass either stay off shore where the bait on the cape is or head to other areas – either wherever the bunker are or to rockier areas to the north and south where there is a more diverse food chain along the shoreline (crabs, pollack, lobster, tog, etc.). The lack of ecological diversity at the bottom of the food chain on the outer cape shoreline is part of the problem is I guess what I’m trying to say.
what can you do? probably nothing which sucks. They're never going to exterminate seals, and with them there there's really not much incentive for the baitfish to migrate back inshore. Maybe eventually things will get bad enough that the seals run out of food, then they'll probably show up other places and the cycle will start again.
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