Seal Populations

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Why is that the person Flaptail spoke with cannot say publicly that even before a study is conducted there may be sufficient evidence to come to the conclusuion that the seal population is above what is currently sustainable and the seals have started harming the entire fishery? Certainly if this person said this to Flaptail then thier has to have been some conversation amongst this person's peers about the seals overpopulating different areas where they probably never lived before. I used to hang out on North Beach in the late fifties and early sixties and never saw any. I know my observations are not scientific, and maybe neither are the person who spoke to flaptail, but it certainly is a warning signal that close observations whether it has a scientific basis or not should start.

Its somewhat like the coyote problem. Thier aren't many people who realize that hunting coyote is permitted in Mass. by a chosen few. Maybe this could be handled the same way.