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Oregon, Washington get nod to kill sea lions at Bonneville Dam
The Oregonian ^ | March 18, 2008 | Michael Milstein

Posted on 03/18/2008 10:57:07 AM PDT by jazusamo

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To: jazusamo

I guess finally a rich liberal got his stick boat crapped on for the last time! ;D!


21 posted on 03/18/2008 11:26:09 AM PDT by poobear (Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
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To: jazusamo

BIODIESEL!!!.......


22 posted on 03/18/2008 11:27:53 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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To: jazusamo

The critters are as thick as thieves out there. They’ve destroyed one of the last Ling Cod populations at the mouth of the Hood Canal. Have to be a diver and be lucky to find any of the turquoise colored delicacy. Every time I take the boat out I see a seal strip a hooked fish.

Not only is the seal population bad for the fish mortality, it hurts the economy. Know the real cost of a sport fished Salmon?


23 posted on 03/18/2008 11:28:17 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: jazusamo

There used to be a lot of news stories about a sea lion that was eating salmon at the Ballard Locks in Seattle. A lot of money was spent to move the sea lion to San Diego or someplace like that but he knew where he had a good thing going and swam all the way back. But I could never figure out how one sea lion could be putting a serious dent in the salmon population.


24 posted on 03/18/2008 11:32:18 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: poobear

There may be somrthing to that.

Fish & Game has been playing nice with these sea lions for years. Every year their numbers increase at Bonneville Dam and they gorge on more and more salmon.

I believe when some of them are shot, the rest of them will get the message that they’re not leading a charmed life any longer.


25 posted on 03/18/2008 11:33:54 AM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: jazusamo

‘Bout damn time!


26 posted on 03/18/2008 11:38:17 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: wideminded
Hudson said state and tribal biologists estimate sea lions may consume 13 percent to 17 percent of spring chinook salmon passing through the dam.

It's not just one sea lion, I believe they're over a hundred of them at Bonneville Dam.

If the above stats are true that's a heck of a dent and that's just at one spot.

27 posted on 03/18/2008 11:39:33 AM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: wideminded

There’s also quite a few at Bonneville that return every year that they have names and/or numbers for, those will probably be the first to go.


28 posted on 03/18/2008 11:42:19 AM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: Beagle8U

“I don’t understand how sportsmen in those areas could set on their a$$ and watch all their fish being eaten by a leather bag of guts and do nothing?”

Apathy reigns.


29 posted on 03/18/2008 11:42:21 AM PDT by AuntB ('If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: wideminded

You must be remembering Herschel.


30 posted on 03/18/2008 11:42:55 AM PDT by zek157
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To: jazusamo
"The voracious California sea lions have become a hot-button issue on the Columbia as they consume the same fish the federal government is spending billions of dollars to save."

It's a good thing the federal government spent billions of dollars to save these sea lions. Oh well, it's not really their money.

31 posted on 03/18/2008 11:43:55 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: bigfootbob

Had a good friend lived in Brookings over 20 years ago and ocean fished for salmon every year. He and his buddies cussed the seals and sea lions then.


32 posted on 03/18/2008 11:46:03 AM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: zek157
There aren't any Killer Whales or Great White Sharks to eat them?


33 posted on 03/18/2008 11:49:01 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: jazusamo

About flippin time!!!!

How long has this been going on?!! Years isn’t it?!!

Face it, sea lions and harbor seals are nothing but large salt water rats. Anywhere you find them in large numbers the place is trashed!!Shoot them and feed the homeless.


34 posted on 03/18/2008 11:53:56 AM PDT by blastdad51 (Proud father of an Enduring Freedom vet, and friend of a soldier lost in Afghanistan)
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To: blastdad51

I’d have to look it up but I believe it’s been since about 2000. I know it’s been way too long!


35 posted on 03/18/2008 11:57:35 AM PDT by jazusamo (DefendOurMarines.org | DefendOurTroops.org)
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To: jazusamo

“There may be something to that.”

No doubt! There cuteness wears thin when your teakwood deck has been used for tusk and claw sharpening, not to mention a toilet for a one ton beast!

I say send the native tribes down from Alaska and have a ritual slaughter!


36 posted on 03/18/2008 12:04:08 PM PDT by poobear (Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
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To: jazusamo
Do sea lions have high omega 3?

37 posted on 03/18/2008 12:15:08 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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To: Resolute Conservative

I’m sure it is just a matter of PETA explaining to the Sea Lions that the salmon have rights. I think they would be happy to leave them alone then.


38 posted on 03/18/2008 12:26:00 PM PDT by super7man
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To: Beagle8U

“That must be why I don’t live on the left coast. If it was my fishing going down the toilet, Gang-Green and a few fish cops wouldn’t stop me from dealing with the problem!”

It is a good thing you don’t live out here, or you would be in jail after paying some heavy fines.


39 posted on 03/18/2008 12:29:00 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein ObamaSamma's Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11")
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To: fish hawk

Great news.

Now we need to do this up the coast from Mexico to Canada.


40 posted on 03/18/2008 12:29:50 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Hussein ObamaSamma's Pastor, Jeremiah Wright: "God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11")
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