When the tourist season ends, the hotels, restaurants and shops lock up for the winter. Many cats then have no one to provide food.
Even those with regular feeders lose the supplemental calories and nutrition that come from the tourist industry until visitors return in the spring.
The COVID pandemic of 2020 hit the coastal animals and their feeders hard.
Not only were the tourists and restaurant dumpsters not on hand to help, but many feeders are dependent on the tourist industry for their livelihoods.