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10-19-2009, 08:27 PM
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Permanently Disconnected
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10-19-2009, 08:45 PM
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Work hard. Fish harder.
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Unatural balance
Nature likes balance.
One species tends to "balance" off another species.
Clearly, the sea lion population has risen to an unnatural balance.
I just wonder if a natural or unnatural phenomenon is going to reset this balance.
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10-19-2009, 08:53 PM
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Ruled only by the tide
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Truro
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fish360
Nature likes balance.
One species tends to "balance" off another species.
Clearly, the sea lion population has risen to an unnatural balance.
I just wonder if a natural or unnatural phenomenon is going to reset this balance.
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Speaking of "imbalance," I'd like to reference this editorial that appeared in the Cape Cod Times.
Seal protections create imbalance | CapeCodOnline.com |
Three-fourths of the Earth's surface is water, and one-fourth is land. It is quite clear that the good Lord intended us to spend triple the amount of time fishing as taking care of the lawn.
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10-19-2009, 09:05 PM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
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I was there Saturday and I almost puked!!!
The smell was horrible and all the people could say was "look how pretty they look".
The seals were fighting trying to get on the dock and some of them were all scraped up and had visible wounds.
I took a picture on my iphone of one of the cute ones 
Last edited by lurch; 10-19-2009 at 10:50 PM..
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10-19-2009, 10:58 PM
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Location: North Cambridge, MA
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Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&
%$%$%$%$in vermin |
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10-20-2009, 04:47 AM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
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soooooo, why so many on the docks???
could it be that they are staving off their natural selection? where's the underwater vid of ALL the Orcas/Great Whites that are missing out on their meaty morsels and being denied their forage by man's hapless intervention!!??!!
i say kick 'em back into tha DRINK where they can meet their Fate!!
only the swiftest swimmers survive, BAYYYY BEEEEE!!  |
"The first condition of happiness is that the connection
between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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10-20-2009, 05:03 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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bang some spikes in those piers and then cuts the heads off
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10-20-2009, 10:37 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
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Keep in mind that this was a gradual process.
It began with only a few sea lions sunning themselves on ONE dock and as more and more began to follow suit, they took over more of the pier. The state didn't wouldn't do anythng to discourage them so they eventually took over the entire pier. Now it's considered a "tourist attraction" but that would be like making the local town dump or wastewater treatment facility a tourist attraction: they all STINK to high heavens.
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10-20-2009, 10:39 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
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Oh, and thankfully we don't have the same environmental yahoos running things here..... oh, wait, I forgot our little piping plover fiasco. I guess we do have the same yahoos here as well. |
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10-20-2009, 01:18 PM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
Posts: 946
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FishermanTim
Keep in mind that this was a gradual process.
It began with only a few sea lions sunning themselves on ONE dock and as more and more began to follow suit, they took over more of the pier. The state didn't wouldn't do anythng to discourage them so they eventually took over the entire pier. Now it's considered a "tourist attraction" but that would be like making the local town dump or wastewater treatment facility a tourist attraction: they all STINK to high heavens.
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From what I read, the sea lions all showed up after the 89' quake 20 years ago. I also read that there were originally more but only a "few" stayed behind.
It is funny that a nice looking restaurant is located directly above where the lions are....I can only imagine eating at that place with that horrible smell. |
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10-20-2009, 01:30 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
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Yes they are a threat to our beaches and coastal areas for the reasons cited in the Cape Cod Times article ... need to promote that one ...
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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10-20-2009, 03:39 PM
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sick of bluefish
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: TEXAS
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lurch
From what I read, the sea lions all showed up after the 89' quake 20 years ago. I also read that there were originally more but only a "few" stayed behind.
It is funny that a nice looking restaurant is located directly above where the lions are....I can only imagine eating at that place with that horrible smell.
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the docks are not that close to a restaurant and you're talking Fishermans Wharf, a MAJOR tourist attraction. there are tens of thousands of people on those docks. shops, restaurants all over there. I've never noticed a smell at all. The seal lions are not there year round, but I think mostly in the winter months. |
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