If we don't control them thery will become as bad as the seals in Monterey and San Fran where people can't even use the docks and floating piers anymore plus the smell and waste ( seal poopoo). They need to be controlled as far as populations are concerned. Net them and ship them to Maine. They eat upwards of forty pounds of fish a day ( thats a lot of sand eel and school bass and window paine flounder and fluke) I could just imagine what they would do to a school of whale Pogies.
Seals are rats with fins and I now declare them a public nuiscance. Look what they have done to the inshore surf fishery at Monomoy, once the best surf fishing water for bass on the east coast ( not to mention the tree huggers form Ohio who now work for the National Wildlife Service who "manage" the Monomoy Wildlife Refuge.)
There are plenty of bass just outside of the island just south and east of the old Chatham inlet and Long Bar, ( does anyone here even remeber Long Bar or am I dating myself?) by the orange pins but they won't come into the surf along the outside of Monomoy because of the seals. If a plaque swept down upon them tomorrow I wouldn't shed a tear. ( That reminds me of those nutz from the stranding network too, got people out on the street living in cardboard but a seal or dolphin strands and there are pleas on the radio for help, warm soup etc., and 200 yuppies show up in thier wetsuits crying and pleading with the whales to save themselves, thirty years ago if dolphins or pilot whales stranded there would be a bunch of "real Cape Codders" down there with lances and knifes hacking off thier heads to sell to Nye Oil Co for extra bonus cash. Thats when the world here was right)
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