I figured I would research a bit on the seals that keep mugging us on the seashore.
there are some informative sites.
here is a paragraph I found interesting
"Only five significant horsehead breeding rookeries survive in all of North America, and all come under Canadian jurisdiction. They are on Amet, Camp, and Hut Islands along the coasts of Nova Scotia; on offshore Sable Island; and on the pack ice that gathers in the Northumberland Straight. the later site seems to be a new development, the result of desperate efforts by seals that once bred on islands off the west Cape Breton coast to find a whelping place that will not be turned into a charnel yard by the Conservation and Protection Branch.A recent rookery on Deadsman Island in the Magdalen archipelago has now been virtually exterminated. There is a relic breeding population of grey seals in the Muskeget Island area near Cape Cod, but only eleven pups have been recorded since 1964."
this whole site has their history but it's long. They speak of the $5 bounty and then the $10 bounty.
http://www.greyseal.net/ABOUT/history.htm
Unfortunately, it seems like we have to put up with them because according to alot of people that put animals interests ahead of humans, they are and may continue to be protected.
I am really getting tired of catching fish for the seals, I catch them for myself not them. Surfcasting on Cape Cod is dying an ugly death
And the horrible part is that the acceleration of that death in the past 3-4 years is very surprising
Between the plovers, the seals and the mung caused by that outflow pipe, the Capes' economy will once again suffer
Only the richest of the richest will be left to enjoy their pallacial palaces on the cliffs, us peasants must suffer and complain
So instead of spending my time making plugs to feed the seals with and reading internet fishing reports and actually fishing, my spare time will be spent more writing to legislatures because I am disgusted. I think I will start with trying to get the federal funding that keeps plovers on the endangered list stopped. Then onto the seals, then to the outflow mung. .............
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