Sign of things to come??

[Sgt_Nutz]

The wife and I fished the Duxbury Bay Area today. Saw two seals in the inner bay. Not small harbor seals but the big fisheries ruining ones! I have fished the area fairly often over the years and have seen them occasionally off the Gurnet but never inside. They did not seem the least concerned with the boat traffic and looked rather put out that they had to move! The fishing was ok but not like it has been. I hope this isn't that outer Cape infestation spreading inside! Any one else seeing them on the South Shore?

[BigFish]

I kayak there alot....have not seen any seals at all...even the small harbor seals and certainly not the beasts!!!!!

[fishsmith]

You see more of them every winter on the Gurnet's rocks, I think it's just a matter of time till they take up year round residence.
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[Jackbass]

They are running out of room on CC
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[FishermanTim]

They have been visiting th bay for years now, but they don't seem to stay there all season long. Maybe the boat traffic disturbs them (aww, what a shame!) and they leave. I didn't see one but heard one at the Powderpoint Bridge a few years back. There's no mistaking that snorting exhale sound they make, kind of like a whale exhaling, only faster.

If the seals ever make the bay a new rookery, what will happen to fishing and boating rights? We all know that seals have more rights than the taxpayers that use the waters, right?

Anyway, hopefully they will head back out to where the sharks can pick them off, and leave the bays to us!

[MikeD]

I had a really big harbor seal pop up in front of me 2 weeks ago at dawn north of Duxbury. They are always cruising around the front beach early in the morning. I even ran into one way up the south river one night. It was having a coughing fit so I think that one was pretty close to being crab food. It would really suck to see that population move onto the south shore.

[FishermanTim]

Maybe it was looking for the harbor seal burial ground, where seals go to die?

If they are allowed to take over more and more shoreline fishing grounds with no control what will the anglers have to do?

Keep in mind that if the seals continue to expand their hunting and breeding grounds we will continue to loose vital fishing grounds.

Keep that in mind when you buy your next saltwater fishing and shellfish license/permit!

[Canalman]

When will they introduce a SEAL CONTROL bill?

[Haus]

Originally Posted by Canalman

When will they introduce a SEAL CONTROL bill?

Never!, with a bunch of liberals running the state/country!

[Uncle Rob]

Seal control bill, yea right. As we call them in the lower FL. Keys, the tree hugger's always win ! Try and control seals around CC or any place and you'll be beaten on all fronts.