Blue Claw Boat Tours depart from Orleans and have tours lasting for 1 hour and 45 minutes just about every day in the summer. When you are cruising through the waters, take in all the natural scenery and enjoy the delightful weather. After your wonderful excursions to watch the beautiful Cape Cod seals, continue the adventures with us at Chatham Gables Inn.
Unwind in our beautiful accommodations adorned with luxurious linens, antiqued furnishings, and restored hardwood floors. Refuel every morning with a delicious warm breakfast made to order just the way you like it. Create the ultimate outdoor retreat with us today! NOAA estimated in that there were between 22, and 33, gray seals and about 75, harbor seals. The total Canadian seal population is thought to be about , animals. Bottom line: There are a lot of seals off the coast of New England and Canada.
But are there too many? Biologists often look at how many of a given species an ecosystem can sustain. They have a term for this: "carrying capacity. If the seals had reached this threshold, their population would be decreasing, not increasing, she says. Some people on the Cape have reached this point and advocate action, like culling the seals. Politicians like Barnstable County Commissioner Ronald Beaty worry that after last summer's fatal shark attack , tourists will avoid the Cape.
Just as we need to manage forests, we need to manage all of our natural resources, including seals. Sell a tags a season for breeder males at a pop money goes to woods hole for research.. Harvest seals on a open season. Just like deer-hunting, give out a lottery of permits to hunt seals. Helps keep the seal herd in check. Might be less great white sharks in the cape area.
The seals and the sharks have been protected for 50 years,so what did these genius biologists expect. They just keep eating and screwing and making more seals and sharks. Seals weigh around lbs,and they eat their weight in stripers and baby lobsters everydayx, seals that is 20,, lbs a day.
They say about white sharks are on the cape,they eat their weight daily too at a lbs each. Thats another , lbs of lobster and gamefish everyday. Yet these imbeciles continue to blame the fishermen for ruining the fish stocks. And Komil is making a fortune selling stupid electric buoys to repel a lb shark.
So when jaws is dragging your dead ass out to sea it can also have an electronic buoy and a 50lb bass in its mouth. Seals eat very few striped bass. Read the article. The information is not fabricated.
The biologists are not making up stories. Seals do not eat their weight each day, nor do sharks. You are seriously untruthful or uninformed. We can only hope that a viscous disease kills off the entire seal population. I preferred it when there were no seals, the fishing was sure as sh!
That includes fishing. Unless we get rid of the seals there will be not fishing. I have read the Australians are wondering where their Great Whites went.
I work for the Army Corps of Engineers Cape Cod Canal and I see seals every morning in our patrol boat basin hunting striped bass, sometimes three or four seals. They come up with a striper in their mouth at least every minutes. Your email address will not be published. Search this website: Enter. An abundance of gray seals lining the beach on Monomoy in August Pilot and photographer Wayne Davis, who has been taking aerial photos around the Cape for 48 years, notes that the number of seals on the Cape seems to have declined during the last two summers.
A shark gives chase to its quarry just beyond the breaking surf on Monomoy last November. That seal managed to make it safely to the beach. Wayne Davis, oceanaerials. The booming seal population around the Cape and Islands has triggered an increase in the number of great white sharks in the area.
One shark draws blood from its victim in five feet of water at the south end of Nauset Beach. Gray seals Halichoerus grypus are the predominant species of seal found in Massachusetts waters during the summer months. This mature female cow on the left and male bull were photographed in the waters off Cape Cod. Male gray seals can exceed 10 feet in length and weigh over pounds, while females are significantly smaller.
Life expectancy is 25 — 35 years. Encounters with seals shadowing anglers have become more common in recent years. Gray seals in Chatham Harbor. Note the monofilament line encircling the neck of the seal in the center of the photo. Gear entanglement, especially from commercial gill net fishing, is a major cause of seal mortality. This gray seal has become a regular at the Chatham Fish Pier, where it begs like a dog for scraps from local anglers. Seal meat is tasty It tastes like dolphin!
Appreciate the joke. Meant to post this somewhere else. I would try seal with ketchup! In the Northeast region, they eat mainly a variety of groundfish hakes, cod, haddock, flatfish , redfish, herring and squids; diet data comes mainly from juvenile animals and more research is needed on animals at other life stages.
Seals move around to forage and spend significant amounts of time in the water, making it hard to estimate their numbers. Seasonal changes in gray and harbor seal abundance outside of the breeding season are unknown. Population numbers have been increasing since federal regulations protecting marine mammals were put in place in the s.
A study estimated 30—50, animals at various times in southeastern Massachusetts. Dig deeper: Researchers get the scoop on seals. Culling has been tried in the past U. Gray seals from Canada continuously supplement seals in the United States, so seals that are removed will just be replaced by animals from other regions. Facebook Twitter Email. Sharks and seals: Here's what you need to know about the animals off Cape Cod. Eric Williams Cape Cod Times. Show Caption. Hide Caption. Cape Cod beach closed after great white sharks spotted near shore.
A beach in Cape Cod was closed to swimmers after two great white sharks were spotted near the shore. One researcher is losing sleep as the population of sharks off the coast of Massachusetts continues to grow. Cape Cod seals spark passionate debate.
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