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Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
Add up all the fish taken by recs, commercial, Asians ect........ and that number is minuscule compared to the numbers of fish eaten by seals daily
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Add up all the fish? You aren't referring to just striped-bass are you? Striped-bass is an occasional food source for seals. The research out there shows about 40% of their diet is sand eels, 20% hake, followed by flounder, skates, cusk eel, lobster, bivalves. Small percent of diet is herring, cod, striped-bass and similar.
All available data indicates that the overall impact of seals on the striped-bass population is minuscule compared to humans. Maybe not at specific back beaches, but the back beaches don't represent the coastwide population.
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