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September 22, 2006

Cape fisherman: Are seals eating all the fish?

CHATHAM, Mass. -- A Chatham fisherman is seeking support for an official study of the gray seal population in Cape Cod waters to see if, as he suspects, their numbers are having a negative effect on local fish stocks.

Paul Bremser believes the seal population on Chatham's Monomoy Island and South Beach shores has been depleting cod, haddock and flounder, among other species.

Gray seals, 600- to 1,000-pound animals with distinctive horse-like heads, are protected under the federal 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Bremser said he wants federal regulatory officials to do a study of the seals, he told the Cape Cod Times for a story published today.

Read the full Associated Press story

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