seals out of control

[MAKAI]

Could tour busses full of Inuits come down to hunt them ?
Beats kayaking around the ice to get them up north.
I'd lend them my yak.
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[jeffsod]

Wonder if the seals have been causing problem with any netters, in their effort to get fish???

The weir fisherman in Nantucket sound have been having huge problems. The one guy left that ran out of herring river retired as a result and sold his shanty in herring river.

[Guppy]

I worked on the house next to the one with the wind mill on it across from the shanty early seventies
The trap boats would come in with 3 - 4 guys standing in fish neArly up to the gunwalls... And get vacuumed out

It's been a year or two since I've been down that way in the spring and seen only one trap...

A lost art I suspect

[hq2]

Well, the obvious issue also is; what are seals' predators? Great
white sharks - the big ones! That means over time, more of them
are going to show up where the seals are, which also happens to
be near where people are at Chatham (they've already shown up
there) and Horseneck beach. I think if something happens there (which eventually it probably will) you will see people be a lot more interested in doing something about the seals.

[clambo]

way I see it there is an easy solution as follows.Have Inuits teach us how to prepare them. A controlled cull of stocks yearly. Cook them at soup kitchens. feed the hungry. WIN WIN

ps if they suck need a new plan.