[Red Badger]

It's called 'Nature'..........................

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[BuffaloJack]

Sorry, I’ll always pick the life of a mammal over a fish.
I don’t care how endangered the fish is.
Nature don’t care, only liberals.

[Rio]

I think it’s not 100% natural as the fish get bunched up figuring out how to go up the fish ladder. The sea lions hang out at the bottom of the ladder where the fish congregate.

[Flick Lives]

After two days spent trapping and relocating the animal designated #U253...

They're numbering sea lions like WWII German u-boats!

[marktwain]

From the article:

“It’s a frustrating dance between California sea lions and wildlife managers that’s become all too familiar in recent months. The bizarre survival war has intensified recently as the sea lion population rebounds and fish populations decline in the Pacific Northwest.”

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It is not bizarre. It is nature. Life and death are intertwined. Man is the dominant predator on the planet, and he has the responsibility to manage the rest.

There is no “balance” in nature.

The lack of balance is the result of humans, who will not face the reality of their own mortality, expecting all animals to live forever, in a Fake Disney version of reality that never existed and can never exist.

[shotgun]

No it’s called messing with nature. Since humans can no longer hunt marine mammals, and its against the law to harass them, they congregate in the rivers and gorge themselves on dwindling fish stocks. And since the main goal is to prove that man is evil, they blame the dams for the reductions of the fish.

[gundog]

California Sea Lions are grossly overpopulated.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

With their numbers growing, the dog-faced pinnipeds are venturing ever farther inland on the watery highways of the Columbia River and its tributaries in Oregon and Washington — and their appetite is having disastrous consequences, scientists say.

Nature indeed. Now that the sea lion population is exploding due to protection, look for an increase in the population of sharks and killer whales along the coast.

[blueplum]

Sea lions just doing what they’ve done for centuries and centuries. Rational people would just kill them if their populations got too large.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Bear yummies. They need to make this a Grizzly bear preserve. After they do what Grizzlies do move them to Alaska.