Posted on 04/08/2006 8:47:54 PM PDT by george76
Despite bombs, boats and rubber bullets, dozens of sea lions are continuing to kill salmon near the Bonneville Dam.
This month, biologists are trying one last time to scare off the problem sea lions, but if that doesn't work, they may try to kill them.
Sea lions could kill as much as 10 percent of this spring's salmon run and biologists say if they cannot get the problem solved soon, the situation could get ugly.
The problem is that the salmon are disappearing. An estimated 8,000 salmon will be lost this spring at Bonneville Dam.
"The difficult part about it is we're trying to save the endangered salmon as they are going up past the dam, but you've got the Marine Mammal Protection Act that protects these marine mammals," says Bob Stansell, a Biologist with the Army Corps of Engineers.
The biggest violator is sea lion C-404. He has managed to penetrate the fish ladder at Bonneville Dam.
Biologists say there are nearly 1,000 other sea lions hunting salmon in the Columbia River ...
(Excerpt) Read more at katu.com ...
Would you be opposed to problem sea lions being killed?
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RACISM!
i'm no green freak but i think a sea lion is more important than a fish. when determining which one to kill intelligence should be a factor
NO SALMON FOR OIL !!!!!
When Endangered Species collide an environmentalist's head explodes.
Coming to a theater near you.
This should be fun to watch the DUmmies attack each other...
C-404 sounds like quite a guy !!!!!!
kill 'em all, let Neptune sort 'em out
The biggest violator is sea lion C-404
I hate it when biologists give animals, cutesy, anthropomorphic names.
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"-Hillary Clinton
(Yes, she really said that
Peggy Noonan
The Case Against Hillary Clinton, pg 55)
Regulators put severe restrictions on salmon fishing
Federal regulators have voted to impose severe restrictions on salmon fishing off the coasts of Oregon and Northern California to protect dwindling populations in the Klamath River.
The Pacific Fishery Management Council decided to close about 700 miles of coastline to commercial salmon fishing for most of June and July.
Those are generally the most productive months of the season.
Federal fishery officials say the closures are the broadest ever imposed on the West Coast salmon fishery.
Obviously C-404 is an agent of the Bush administration, because as you know this is all Bush's Fault!
[The efforts to harass the sea lions enough to scare them away from Bonneville Dam will last through May.]
They've been trying to scare them off for years, they're not gonna solve the problem by may.
The animal rights huggers are going to go ballistic but the salmon will benefit. Sacrifice a few to save many. :-)
is that for real? do you have a source for that?
What will PETA, ALF, and ELF say or do ?
Save the fish or save the lions ?
LOL classic
They'll say save them all, there just has to be a way. Of course they won't provide the answer.
There sure will be an uproar from them though.
Yikes! I've never seen a sea lion.
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