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Sea lions cause problems for fisherman all along the Pacific coast and inland. In the last year or so there have two or three shot by fishermen in the Columbia river after the fishermen have become frustrated from the sea lions taking salmon off their lines.
There’s also been a huge problem with the animals coming up the Columbia over a hundred miles to Bonneville Dam during the salmon runs and gorging themselves on salmon and killing the salmon without even eating them.
The state has finally gotten permission to start shooting the problem sea lions that can’t be scared off because they kill so many salmon.
There are pictures of a clever sea lion swimming up and thru the engineered gate to keep lions out of the fish ladder .
The lions apparently kill very many salmon.