Request for Seal Study Made

[zacs]

Originally Posted by Slipknot

Zac, the seals have ruined the fishing we once had just 4 years ago.
They decimated all the flounder in Pleasant bay, they will continue to eat everything around here till it's gone. They target us fisherman to get an easy meal when we manage to finally hookup, then we risk losing the plug and the fish. they all must die or go away.

What I was saying, and please correct me if i'm wrong, is that the main source of food for stripers on the cape historically has been sand eels. If the seals are eating the sand eels more voraciously (sp?) than the stripers, there is your problem. Not the seals eating the stripers, which I know happens, but if there is no bait, that is a much bigger problem.

And you guys can write letters, picket the state house, start a hunger strike, whatever. None of it will make any difference. You have a better bet of getting open season on piping plovers then you ever have on moving, hunting, or otherwise disturbing a marine mamal, especially a cute seal.

I feel bad for you guys, and I hope the seals don't make it down this way in those types of numbers... but hunting seals on the cape will NEVER NEVER EVER be allowed in this day and age.

Zac