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Old 09-08-2009, 01:30 PM   #17
Blitzseeker
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I don't think anyone is really thinking the sharks will do anything to the seal population other than make for some excitement at the expense of a fairly hated adversary of the Cape Cod surf fisherman.

If there are 10 thousand seals on the Outer Cape (made up number as a stake in the ground), and there are ten sharks eating a seal a week for a month, that's only a half a percent of the population.

For me, personally, it is more:

(1) In the back of my mind, I'll always have the excitement of seeing those seals swimming 50 yards offshore and wondering if they are going to get whacked, and
(2) knowing there is at least something out there constraining what would otherwise be almost completely uninhibited growth in thier poplulation.....no matter how small that constraint may be
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