The seals were mentioned. The seal problem itself I believe is under a different jurisdiction in the USFWS. The USFWS is made up of all kinds of different departments. They all get to chime in though once the CCP is sent to DC for final approval. See the April issue of OTW for an article on the seals at Monomoy by Catherine Cramer. I found while reading it that the USFWS Biologists are iehter in the dark as to what to really do and/or they do not want to face the fact that the successful ( comeback of the grey seal is beyond thier expectations and planning and they wnat to avoid publicly, at this time, declaring the evergrowing population ( 3 to 5 thousand greys alone) of seals are actually affecting the other resident fish populations such as Sand eel, flounders of varying types, scup, seabass, tautog, inshore winter cod and yes the Mighty Striped Bass and Bluefish in a negative way. I think they know this but don't know what to do.
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