Request for Seal Study Made

[Flaptail]

Death to Seals on Cape Cod Beaches. Bring back the 70's when they were only here in the winter. How about some seal birth control? Bring back the sand eels and Window pane flounder and the bass to the beach. We have rights to just as much as the animals.

[Karl F]

When on the cape, in recent memory has anyone caught a sand dab off the beach.. flounder, or fluke, in Pleasant Bay, or Nauset Harbor?sand eels?, how abundant they were remember?

zacs, a young man, marine biologist, that I speak with where I work, his hobby is studying these seals, I am going to ask him to share his data with the Chatham Selectmen, he dives, and boats and is following the seals on his own time.. Get Ready.. he feels that they are starting to follow the food chain south of us, as they have more or less cleaned the cupboard here... hope you welcome them to clean your area of bait and fish, I will bid them good riddance.
I have heard that the greys ( a few) have been spotted as far south as the Hudson this year!
That is how they start, a few at a time....

no wonder the animal activists continually win, if sportsmen lay down so easy... guys that are writing .. keep it up, it might not have a snow balls chance in hell, but keep trying.. rec, or comm, one thing both groups know.. is the seal must go, or at least thin the herd..
People, and Sportsmen have rights too.. the Plover folks, and the Seal folks have lost sight of that.. let us not join them.

[tattoobob]

We just won a big battle with the Canadian Geese and hopefully we can do the same with the seals, the plovers is a tough battle but we can win that one to.

[macojoe]

Back 10 years ago I use to rake sand eels right in pleasent bay!! Right on the bar out front the at the mission.

Last year I could not get any!!

Been 2 years since I have gotten a Fluke in Little Pleasent Bay.

KILL KILL KILL KILL SEALS!!

[Bass Babe]

I don't think there'll be a seal hunt anytime soon, but officials could certainly up the potential biological removal (PBR) of one or more of the 4 seal species found around here. That means more bycatch allowed for the comms. There is a way to take more, maybe just not a public clubbing. To find info on how the populations are doing, how much removal is allowed, how much longer we can expect the species to be overprotected, and more info, check NOAA's stock assessment reports. They can be found at http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/sars/.

[CANAL RAT]

a seal hunt would be pretty sweet.i can take my remy semi auto shotgun and load it up with rifled slugs.

[gone fishin]

The seal problem is heavy on the Cape, but is rapidly spreading to the North Shore. Plum Island and the Merrimack river is loaded with the swimming rats. They actually reside in the river and chase the fish right along with the fishermen.
Also have had plenty show up off of Sandy Neck. I think all that has been posted here is in vain unless we get together and make some kind of noise with the Pols.