where did all the seals come from?

[likwid]

Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman

IMO That GW shark came inshore to feed on these critters. I bet we see a few more in the next couple years.. When the cape and islands experiences a real life Jaws in the next few years....they will determine it is because of the seal population and THEN they will act because it is effecting their wallets. I don't think the folks that act to "protect" some species have a total feel for the entire big picture and what reactions it may have on the local species. I think they mean well, and they like patting each other on the their backs because they think they are saving mankind but most of them are really disconnected from reality.

Seals should not be here in the summer....I only hope is they develop a taste for plover.

Open season on the cuddly widdle seals will happen right around the same time they allow skeet-plover shooting.

Not only do the people who are trying to protect have no vision, neither do the people trying to allow open season on other critters.

[macojoe]

#%^( Seals!!

Chatam in August!! They are here all year long now!!

[kippy]

I fished on Monomy from shore about 3 years ago and don't remember that many seals there. Have they started residing year round recently?

[macojoe]

They have been there for years now and the heard is getting bigger all the time!! Thats not even the pic I was looking for!

This is going out of Stage Habor and then going out the cut. Just around the corner from open water!
Let me tell you it sucks when they strip your line clean when they grab your Bass

[macojoe]

We need more of them here to take care of the seals!!

[schoolie monster]

Yes, we f'd up the ecosystem and we're gonna pay for it. The ocean isn't an aquarium for us to manage. We killed seals, whales, fish, sharks, etc. to the point of oblivion. You then protect them, but pollute the water and harvest their food.

Claim victory for recovering populations, but the ecosystem is so fragile b/c of the damage. Stripers come back but are increasingly sickly b/c we're wiping out bunker. Recovering seals overpopulate b/c they are unchecked by predators such as the big sharks or orcas... oh yeah, we wiped them out too, or they vacated cause there weren't any seals.

The answer isn't to wipe out the seals again. The answer is to stop wiping out bunker, herring and mackerel. If they are abundant, seals won't be eating bass.

And hopefully the top predators will return and keep the seal populations down, but it won't happen all at once.

Seals aren't the problem... we are. Before we came along, there were seals and there were bass and there were sharks, etc, etc. and it wasn't a "problem"

[Bliz]

The answer is Simple:

Put the Striped Bass Fisherman on the Endangered Species List.

Then sanction out the Seals... and the Plovers!