August 29, 2017 — There are so many seals on the coast of Massachusetts that you can see them from space.
Literally. If you zoom in on Cape Cod using the satellite photo feature on Google Maps, you won’t miss the herds of seals scattered along the coast.
Start at the southern tip of Monomoy Island near Monomoy Point and move north on the ocean side of Monomoy Island.
Kimberly Murray, a research coordinator for the seal program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center, said officials this year observed up to 25,000 seals off Massachusetts in a single day.
The number of seals currently residing in the waters off the state’s coast is likely as high as 50,000, based on recent research that also factored in the number of seals in the water.