State of Seal Overpopulation & Great White Resurgence in New England

I didn't take it personally, you just didn't read anything first. No one "barked" about it up here. The locals all thought it was incredible theater and appreciated it for what it was.

 

No shyte! Orcas!

Gotta get my a$$ on a whale watch in oct...they probably all gone then though

 

Sharks and seals?!?!? Thanks Obama.

I have a shark story.

I went to the ocean and there was sea life there.

 

Spot on. This is all you need to know. Everything thing else is pretty much drama.

 

Umm, somebody already did-- a visiting tourist from Denver, about 2 years ago.
He has a "shark story" also.....

 

There's been a bunch of attacks on kayaks too. So glad I don't have to deal with that crap. It's enough dodging kooks and their boards, forget sharks the size of buses. At least RI doesn't have this problem.(yet?)

Are the sharks in cape cod just their seasonally in huge numbers or year round? Do they leave for the winter? I can't imagine gw sharks in 30 degree water. In other areas around the world like the farral islands they tend to migrate at certain times.

Also, why are there so many seals in cape cod/outer islands, but very few in RI/nh/maine/montauk. Around 30,000+ seals on the cape versus a few hundred part of the year in RI. Those grey seals all came from Canada so you'd think NH/maine would be flooded too. I know nj has much warmer water so year round pupping sites would be unlikely in large numbers, but farther north is a similar climate. Does anyone have any idea?

Amazing the amount of seals in this video: They are so cute, smart, and sweet, too bad they bring in sharks.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-of-seals-take-over-beach-in-cape-cod/

 

We should probably just sink Cape Cod with this "shark" problem.

It has nothing to do with it being a jetty to the rest of New England getting more tropical actions...nothing at all.

 

Good point...topography certainly must play a strong part in this phenomena.

 

I'm pretty ignorant, but I'd imagine it has something to do with the fact that the cape and islands stick way farther out into the ocean than the rest of New England. If I'm a lazy seal hanging out in the Gulf Stream, I'd probably look to score some R&R on the beach of least resistance.

 

Great Whites are protected also, aren't they.
Kill one and it's $10K fine or 10 years in the slammer, or both.
Human life?? Worthless....abort them away, shoot a cop, refuse healthcare to elderly. Yup- we are going in the right direction.......uh huh....

 

O Pa Pa

 

Cranky Granddad

 

Sharks will stay around as long as they can get enough calories to beat the colder degrees. That is a biological certainty. However, female GW that are pregnant migrate south to release pups in warmer waters to increase survival rate--that too is a biological point. Other species do the same. Seals remain in the area. And lastly--Maine and NH have large seal populations as well, and GWs are spotted up here occasionally as well. But the Cape has the largest and easiest seal population for GWs to munch on.
Oh, maybe seals like Cape Cod because it has the highest concentrations of human liberals that protect them, feeding them dead girls in cars murdered by a Kennedy clan member, or , all the aborted fetuses from their 13 year old daughters the liberals have told it is "ok" to have sex at that age?? Makes sense to me.....<grin>

 

I have to agree with this. It's getting pretty extreme with animal rights/environmentalist people. Human life is becoming less and less valuable.

 

brrrrrpppppp!!!!!!!

 

Barry I remember one person on facebook saying a cancer researcher should burn in hell for doing potential life saving research on a mouse. A mouse And it got a lot of likes. We'd have no medicine at all without lab animals. When you see no difference between human and animal life your morality is badly twisted.

 

thats my indicator here. Seals in the lineup= good. Seals were in the line up but looking at you from the beach get the **** out. weve had 2 white attacks on surfers in the past decade here at the stretch of beach in front of my place and both were preceded by that.

they need to cull the sea lions too. the stellas are mean bastards

 

Interesting choice of example you made. Early in my career I worked as a lab-tech for Atomic Energy Commission (Dept of Energy now) radiating mice and the doing blood work on them. I "sacrificed" a lot of mice. My work was incorporated into other studies leading then to data to be used for treating cancer patients. That was early 70s. Long time ago. I did not like sacrificing the mice, but it was the final outcome for us that was the goal. Hopefully, something good came of it; I never knew if it did.

 

Ok, how about dolphins?

Dolphins = mice, human, or somewhere in b/t?

 

The value of human life has never been higher - we are living longer than ever and at the same time never been so unhealthy.

It's a dangerous leap to go down this road without sprinkling some perspective. I'm no environmental/animal activist, but just remember how out of control the human population is.