{"id":7743,"date":"2010-11-06T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2010-11-14T13:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T18:57:15","slug":"stranding-weekend-gray-seals-on-billingsgate-shoals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=7743","title":{"rendered":"Stranding Weekend: Gray Seals on Billingsgate Shoals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-003.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7746\" title=\"bsgs 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"bsgs 003 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-003-480-300x285.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\u00c2\u00a0<strong><em>Billingsgate Shoals Occupied by Gray Seals<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">Participants in the Stranding Weekend on Outer Cape Cod boarded the Naviator in Wellfleet Harbor this afternoon for a cruise to Billingsgate Shoals at the mouth of Wellfleet Bay.\u00c2\u00a0 The shoals are found off the southern tip of the Great Island peninsula, across a swift flowing channel from Jeremy Point.\u00c2\u00a0 As the tide drops and Billingsgate Shoals rises from the bottom of Cape Cod Bay, gray seals mass on the moist sands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-002-netting.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7748\" title=\"bsgs 002 netting 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-002-netting-480.jpg\" alt=\"bsgs 002 netting 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-002-netting-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-002-netting-480-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\u00c2\u00a0<strong><em>Gray Seal Entangled in Gill Netting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">\u00c2\u00a0As the Naviator held station off Billingsgate, binoculars and camera caught three seals that had signs of gill net entanglement.\u00c2\u00a0 The third gray seal from the bottom left in the photograph above has extensive netting wrapped around its neck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-001-netting.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7750\" title=\"bsgs 001 netting 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-001-netting-480.jpg\" alt=\"bsgs 001 netting 480\" width=\"480\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-001-netting-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/bsgs-001-netting-480-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\"><strong><em>Close-Up of Gray Seal Entangled in Gill Netting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\">A close-up of this seal shows the gill netting more clearly.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n   google_ad_client = \"pub-6174531794045772\"; 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