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Hazing of double-crested cormorants that eat juvenile salmon and steelhead on their migration to the Pacific will begin next week in the Nehalem and Tillamook estuaries. 

LINK (Via:The Statesman's Journal)

Wildlife officials began hazing sea lions Friday to move them away from Willamette Falls fishing areas.

LINK (Via:West Linn Tidings)

Comments

[Andy]

It's the Statesman Journal, not Statesman's Jounal.

[Constant_Gardener]

This is ridiculous. We spent money to help the birds, now we're spending money to harm the birds. It perfectly illustrates how our 'half-natural' wildlife management approach will never work. Food webs connect all sorts of species, so if we're going to manage one major player, we have to manage them all. And that means picking the species we want most, and letting others decline. We've messed with the salmon for over a century now, so there's no going back to some 'natural' state. Which means we can't just leave the birds alone either. Society's gotta pick: more birds or more salmon?