I wonder how things would have been back in the 70's on Cape Cod when all the big fish were caught and most everyone fishing was selling them and the beaches were lite up somewhere with fish almost every night, if there had been ten thousand seals around like there are today munching on everything that moves in the water?????
That is a stretch I'm sure, but I wonder if the fishing would have been any different back then if you were still able to drive the whole beach but had to compete with seals like we do today.
These animals are very intelligent, they follow us along the beaches, they know a rod in our hands means that once we hook up to and fish in the area, that that fish will be easy prey for a nice meal for them. They have learned to eat the fish and stay away from ours hooks, they leave the fishhead. I know they live in the ocean and have been here longer than us, but with federal protection they are reaping the rewards of the resurgence of the striped bass and we have lost a once great fish area to a bunch or hoovers with diseases and bacteria and all sorts of nasty stuff. Great whites are showing up more and more but I'm afraid there will never be enough to dicourage these seals from their easy living here on Beautiful Cape Cod, they remind me of the Commercial fishermen that are the kind that will net the last fish in the sea
They have ruined so much already, can anything be done to stop this? or do we have to wait for them to leave once all the food is gone?
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