Block Island has seen a big increase in seals The Block Island ... Islanders aren't as enchanted with seals as others. Seals eat a lot of fish, causing concern for some fishermen.

The mammals' return to the region represented a conservation success story, but their appetite for endangered fish is ...

Here, at the cold and dim abandoned fish hatchery at Big Beef Creek near Seabeck ... acoustic startle technology” device to scare seals from eating juvenile steelhead at the Nisqually estuary ...

So, too, do a handful of hungry seals and sea ... s an all-you-can-eat buffet.” For decades, pinnipeds have been congregating at the Ballard Locks to gorge themselves on fish populations already ...