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Stop Sea Lion Killing Plan
Target: National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources
Sponsored by: Care2
Sponsored by: Care2
The National Marine Fisheries Service recently authorized the killing of up to 85 federally protected sea lions this year at the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River in Oregon.
Federal and state officials claim they have to kill sea lions to protect endangered salmon. But sea lions are not the main threat to endangered salmon on the Columbia river - dams, habitat loss and humans are.
Consider the facts:
Learn more from the Humane Society of the United States, Wild Fish Conservancy and Save Our Wild Salmon.
Federal and state officials claim they have to kill sea lions to protect endangered salmon. But sea lions are not the main threat to endangered salmon on the Columbia river - dams, habitat loss and humans are.
Consider the facts:
- Sea lions kill between 0.4% and 4.2% of salmon and steelhead returning to the Columbia River each year;
- Federal dams on the Snake River kill over 15% of returning steelhead and salmon adults each year;
- Oregon and Washington states, which requested permission to kill sea lions, proposed increasing fishing quotas from 9% to 12% of the 2008 salmon run.
Learn more from the Humane Society of the United States, Wild Fish Conservancy and Save Our Wild Salmon.
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4:31 am PDT, May 5,
Terri VanKuipers, Canada
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Salmon are important and our sea lions are important, we do not have enough sea lions now. We can always breed the Salmon. Save our sea lions.
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My G_d! Why decimate one population in the name of protection, rather than hinder mans greedy overharvesting? This killing is wrong.
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Please do all you can to save these beautiful animals.
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As a state, we need to focus on dams, habitat loss and humans to protect salmon.
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1:54 am PDT, May 5,
Nicholas Davis, Canada
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stop killing seals you are not human
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As with so many other subjects related to animals, it is humans the real threat.
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GOD HAS CREATED ANIMALS IN A BEAUTIFUL WAY - SO THEY DON'T NEED THE SO CALLED "HELP" OF KILLERS LIKE YOU, MADAM
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1:15 am PDT, May 5,
Robin Jess, Washington
this is the sea lions territory and they need to eat like we do. we were not born in the ocean there fore it is the sea lions ocean. to murder sea lions you are tampering with the eco system for sharks eat sea lions and sea lions eat fish and other ocean life. STOP MURDERING THE SEA LIONS. IN GOD WE TRUST. |
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We need to end the era of thinking that the way to address all wildlife declines is to kill predators. Far more salmon are killed by the dams on the Snake and Columbia Rivers than are killed by sea lions, and any sea lions which are killed in the name of protecting salmon will most likely be replaced by more sea lions.