Not that it's rare... just that this time the seal lived. https://www.facebook.com/njmarinemammal/posts/1582825571737798
Looks like it was a juvenile white... https://patch.com/new-jersey/middle...tacked-seal-monmouth-county-beach-expert-says
Aww....a seal was bitten by a shark........po' wittle "bambi of the Oceans" bitten by bully mean shark. Maybe we should start a Seals Lives Matter???
Busy week here on cape. Just google "shark at nauset beach" or "shark at Marconi". 2 separate incidents, one seal predation, one bort bite. Brought out a lot of local news drama and political foolishness.
one jack arss is requesting culling the sharks! how about bash in the brains of about 75,000 seals and everything gets better! the seals eat the fish and kill the fisherman's lifestyle! the seals shat and piss is in the gulfstream and attract all the whites! a paddle boarder in Wellfleet was knocked off his board by a investigated bite this week! that's when this arsshole started campaigning the killing of the sharks! if we were on the menu, that guy was a easy target, now he has a hell of a story to tell!
I guess I agree with you. It would be hard to sort out if you lived on the cape though and could see how the seal shark populations are growing. Something is out of whack. There comes a point when something must be done. Probably not there yet. But what level of risk is acceptable? At some point you end up like Reunion where surfing is illegal because it is just too dangerous to surf. Wouldn't be too happy if that was my backyard.
There's deer season for a reason! There's no need to have 100,000 seals taking over the outer cape! It's dangerous and becoming a real problem! There like rabbits and are just multiplying! When a kid on boogie board disappears then and only then will something get done! One of the politicians down there want to kill the sharks! I hope he's the first fatal victim! You can see the mass of seals from space, now that's ridiculous!
On the other hand, the central CA coast has a ton of sharks and while people get bit and/or killed every few years but no-one is saying we need to cull out there. So is that too much risk? We haven't even had a non-fatal bite yet. Let's slow our roll on saying anything needs control. I'm not sure I'd go in the water in Chatham given the proximity to the seals but there's plenty of other beaches in the area. The fishermen can _ck off - they decimated the fish population across the board for decades with no thought their kids' future, pushing back on any and all attempts to limit catches. Now we're suppose to feel back about their choices? New Bedford using to make a lot of money off of whaling too, stuff changes.
I agree on your position versus the commercial fishermen. They have utter disregard for any concept of balance in fishing populations. But, you are wrong on one thing--the Cape has seen one non-fatal attack 3 or 4 years ago in Truro. A great white attacked a tourist visiting from Denver. He survived but was bitten severely (then spit out). I guess that Rocky Mountain High taste isn't appealing to sharks.....
Totally true but let's get real. We're not culling sharks or seals in the Carolinas, CA or Florida but should now start preemptively up here? Because people think they should be able to swim within 10 miles of a seal breeding ground? Monomoy is the east coast version of the Farallons and you couldn't pay me to go in the water near either.
