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Salmon headed for the rivers are going to die. Natural food cycle has been around since...

Just because humans have taken a chunk out of the salmon population doesn't mean that the sealions or other sea life have to suffer for it.

PS. I haven't noticed a salmon shortage at the stores.

That salmon that you are getting at the stores are not natural salmon. Sometime, get a real salmon and compare the two. You will be surprised and the quality between them. Even the red color in that fish if fake. As for sea lions, they are way over population, and need to be controlled. (just like fishing and the salmon are controlled) You might want to actually read up on a subject before making a statement about it.

"Salmon headed for the rivers are going to die. Natural food cycle has been around since... "

I agree; I want most of them to spawn first.

'Just because humans have taken a chunk out of the salmon population doesn't mean that the sealions or other sea life have to suffer for it."

As far as I'm concerned, salmon in the open ocean are fair game to sea lions. Salmon in a Corp of Engineers fish ladder are not. Its like using a snag hook in a barrel, or dynamite in a pond. Not sporting, ought to be prevented.

"PS. I haven't noticed a salmon shortage at the stores."

Here in Kansas I have to pay anywhere from $8 to $12 a pound for fresh salmon. Too high, no buy, lots of salmon, no shortage. Instead, people here can buy sirloin strip for $3.50 to $6 per pound. The flint hills in Kansas are lousy with cattle, beef is cheap. The wolves and bears were all hunted to extinction a long time ago so the cattle don't have a lot to worry about. (Lighting, maybe.)

I like salmon, and would fish for it myself, but the salmon run doesn't make it this far up the Kaw river. The run could come down the Kaw as well, I guess, if the salmon could only be trained to cross open ground in the rockies and come from the direction of the continental divide, and provided the Kaw had not dried up, as it intermittently does. Until that happens I have to hope that someone resolves the sea lion issue and the the Salmon continue past the dam, and find their joy in some quiet shaded stone filled pool.