Article on Stripers Forever plan to make striped bass a game fish

[l.i.fish.in.vt]

Captmike,who says seals don't target fish over 2 pounds?maybe the seals i see with 15 to 20 lb bass in there mouths are only playing with them.i can't tell you how many 5 to 10lb bluefish i have lost to seals in the last 5 years.not to mention bigger bass.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by l.i.fish.in.vt

Captmike,who says seals don't target fish over 2 pounds?maybe the seals i see with 15 to 20 lb bass in there mouths are only playing with them.i can't tell you how many 5 to 10lb bluefish i have lost to seals in the last 5 years.not to mention bigger bass.

There's a reason seals follow fishermen up and down the beach.

Also, regardless of the seals targeting the bass or not, those super-colonies like on Monomoy eat hundreds of tons of baitfish every day. As such, hundreds of tons of prey that isn't available for stripers and bluefish.