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Conservation success or pests? Seals spark passionate debate
AP ^
| 10/5/2020
| PATRICK WHITTLE and MICHAEL CASEY
Posted on 10/04/2020 11:00:14 PM PDT by McGruff
Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and there is nothing that gets his blood boiling more than the sight of a seal.
Muto, whose two boats fish for groundfish such as skate and monkfish as well as lobster, is among a growing group of anglers, beach goers and local officials who are quick to blame everything from disease to depleted fisheries to increased shark sightings on the exploding seal population.
Areas that we used to traditionally fish that were as close to guarantees as you could get have been strip mined of fish, and the fish have been driven out of there by seals, Muto said.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; seals; vegetarianism
No one questions that seal and shark numbers are on the rise, mostly due to federal protections. Its estimated there are as many as 50,000 grey seals in New England waters plus a lesser number of harbor seals. The animals were almost eliminated through hunting and bounties decades ago.
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posted on
10/04/2020 11:00:14 PM PDT
by
McGruff
To: McGruff; GOPJ
Thank you, Friend, for posting this thread. 90 minutes had gone by after two consecutive blog-pimp posts by the same newbie pimp, and I was getting worried that hed broken FRs post-a-thread system.
Now Im ready to get passionate about seals.
Wait,... what?
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posted on
10/04/2020 11:04:28 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
To: dayglored
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posted on
10/04/2020 11:13:51 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
To: McGruff
Mammal, red meat, so how do they taste?
Similar to whale? (Had some in Japan, delicious.)
Hide good for anything?
I’m in the hunt them back to manageable numbers camp.
To: McGruff
Seals and sea lions are a menace in SF and Santa Cruz
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posted on
10/04/2020 11:49:35 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: McGruff
Shoot the seals and the sharks. Problem solved.
You can add wolves, cougars, and grizzle bears to that list.
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posted on
10/05/2020 12:49:02 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
("Chris Wallace comes from the shallow end of the press pool.")
To: Ex gun maker.
“Hide good for anything?”
It makes great dubbing fur for tying flies.
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posted on
10/05/2020 12:52:26 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
("Chris Wallace comes from the shallow end of the press pool.")
To: fieldmarshaldj
I love that one. Here’s one: Let’s eat Grandma vs. Let’s eat, Grandma.
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:16:11 AM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts.)
To: Nifster
Seals and sea lions are a menace in SF and Santa Cruz
Why, do they vote R?
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:17:13 AM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts.)
To: Ex gun maker.
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:30:39 AM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
To: McGruff
They think they have problems...
California Sea Lion invasion.
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posted on
10/05/2020 1:37:19 AM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
To: Beagle8U
Sealskin coats were all the rage in the pSt
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:32:31 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
To: Chickensoup
Well, they can bring them back into fashion.
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posted on
10/05/2020 2:42:06 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
("Chris Wallace comes from the shallow end of the press pool.")
To: McGruff
Same old story. Some people can’t stand a little competition.
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posted on
10/05/2020 5:00:10 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: Veggie Todd
Nope. I was serious. Those that live in that part of California understand precisely
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posted on
10/05/2020 6:04:59 AM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: McGruff
Here in Puget Sound they worry about the starving orcas, but do nothing about the seals that camp out at all the choke points eating salmon. They take one or two bites out of each fish and kill them.
Of course it’s all the fault of fishermen and their terrible overfishing.
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posted on
10/05/2020 8:01:16 AM PDT
by
seowulf
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