Salmon-Eating Sea Lions Targeted For Good Taste

NPR reports on the ongoing battle to euthanize sea lions on the Columbia.

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[TKWW]

I thought this was pretty poorly done. It completely skips over how this is a man-made situation and man is trying to solve it. The unnatural condition of the columbia and the unnatural presence of the sea lions gets more or less completely skipped over, but they were sure to include a bit about greedy humans wanting more. There's no denying our interests in fish harvest are a factor in this and every other fish management decision, but hardly the only one in this incredibly complex situation. I felt like none of this was conveyed. And they completely left out how the sea lions are now destroying the sturgeon. The whole thing was just a giant fail.

And yes, I'm an NPR member.

[Chrome Slayer]

On the Sacramento River, we have seal lions that will go well over hundred miles inland with the fish runs. I heard a lot people say it's unnatural, but there are old timers that claim that seals have been doing this before the dams were around. It may a natural instinct to follow the runs into the rivers. What's not natural is the dams and fish ladders make it easy pickings for the seals.