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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: neolib who wrote (20560)2/20/2008 5:43:37 PM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (1) of 36921
 
Sea Lions are smart and love Salmon. Sea Lion populations off the west coast have grown from 10 thousand in 1950 to over 300 thousand today.

Hundreds of sea lions follow salmon and steelhead runs up the Columbia River. They feast on Salmon and swallow as many as 13,000 returning salmon each spring in the Columbia River, nearly 3,000 a year at Bonneville Dam.

The U.S Army Corps of Engineers has been working with Oregon and Washington fisheries experts to reduce the number of fish eaten by Sea Lions. They've tried every trick in the book, but nothing has worked. Each year the Sea Lion population increases by five percent.

NOAA Fisheries Services wants permission to kill some Sea Lions before the runs are wiped out.

Sea Lions are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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