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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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6:23 am PDT, May 5,
Patrick Colucci, Pennsylvania
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We need to address the orimary problem, the loss of salmon to the dams, first. Sea lions take at most 4%, dams take 15%. Please note that the very people proposing that the sea lions be killed 'to protect the salmon', are also proposing increasing the salmon "take" numbers by 3%, a conflict of interest.
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Sea Lions are not the cause of salmon decline.
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killing a protected animal to save protected fish is ludicrous. There is a better way.
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Donna J Fischer
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6:08 am PDT, May 5,
FreeSpirit Running, Florida
I think you know why not to kill sea lions, no one voice will help, you need to do it of your own free will. |
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Stop This Senseless Slaughter Now Please!!
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STOP THIS UNNECESSARY SLAUGHTER!!! The real culprit here is man, yet again. ENOUGH ALREADY!! PLEASE STOP THE SLAUGHTER!!
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Killing federally protected seals is unacceptable. Please do not approve a plan to kill 85 sea lions...sea lions are not the cause of the salmon decline..its the dams themselves killing the largest number of salmon.
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5:14 am PDT, May 5,
Ginger Geronimo, Alabama
All animals have rights, feelings & a right to live!! |
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