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seals wtf...
breef history... back in the late 70s and 80s untill the nauset beach brake, about 91 or 92 i fished monomoy island w/ friends,like flaptail etc. i can tell you of great nights w/ 3to 8+ fish nights in the fall . i never saw seals .. only once in a while early spring , when cod fishing ,but gone buy springs first bass...then alot more in the early 90s . first at the tip of monomoy layed out on the sand. first 50 then 150 and so on,now 6000+ mating seals, all kinds....... sooooo i do remember lots of tons of sand eels, huge schools of pogies, schools of tinker macks,squid and herring in the spring. all this in plesant bay and around nauset beach and monomoy il. fluke too....... NO more, i dont know what happened???i do know that seals eat lots of fish, probably more than we think. i know that they sometimes get caught in the gill nets for cod in 200+ feet of water. i know that there seal chit looks like round hard shell like droppings full of worms that the cod eat and pass it on....monomoy smell like seal chit on the sand bars and so on.......can i blame the seals for lack of bait n fish i dont know????but we need more info on the impact of seals and our decline in our fisheries total biomass....bait and fish.....dave
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