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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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As a christian , we are callled to stewardship, not sadistic destruction.
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Funny, I don't remember hearing of any dams or steelhead eating salmon to survive. A totally natural thing for a sea lion to do. If we keep messing with the natural order of things, the extinct species is going to be.....you guessed it....us.
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STOP KILLING SEA LIONS ...PLEASE!!
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please...
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We don't want sea lions to become extinct. They are an essential part of the ecisystem in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Please cease sea lion killing.
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Americans can eat less Salmon!
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Just move the sea lions
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As a resident and someone who grew up in the Pacific Northwest, I have a deep investment in preserving all of our wildlife. Because of this, I'm asking you to please repeal your agency's approval to kill up to 85 sea lions this year at Bonneville Dam. Sea lions are not the primary cuase of salmon decline in the Pacific Northwest. In fact, sea lions kill 4.2 percent of returning salmon and steelhead, while the dams kill over 15 percent of returning adults, while the incidental take allowance is 9 percent. This reform in the interest of the salmon needs to tackle the roots of the problem, not the easiest way out. We cannot kill just because it would make numbers go down. There are dire consequences for actions like those. Please protect the wildlife I grew up with and love. Sincerely, Gedney.
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Long before we became greedy, the natural balance was working just fine. Preditors took what they needed to survive, and species lived their lives as was planned. We became greedy and have upset this balance. We need to step back and allow Nature to work her miracles.
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Please look at the higher % of reasons Salmon and steelheas are not returning. Does the brutal kill of one justify the other?
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It's time we take responsibility for our actions and stop making scapegoats of innocents animals! Please don't do this!!!
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Man is the biggest culprit when Money and profits seem to be the bottom line or justification for all of man's lousy actions. It is about the Circle of Life... Food Chain... Preys and Predators. So man, the supposedly most evolved of the species should stop tampering with nature and leave these creatures alone! Stop killing... PERIOD!!
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Did you ever stop to think you were doing more harm than good?
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If they are not the cause they don't deserve to be slaughtered in the plan to save the Salmon.Dams,and people and other causes are the culprit.
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Sea lions need to be protected also. Some species of sea lions currently have their populations decline 70% in the last 30 years despite them being protected. We can not kill more for the salmon. There needs to be another way to protect the salmon.
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protect them--now
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Leave our planets wildlife alone.
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I think it is a disgrace. I feel that it is unnecessary and inappropriate.
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Just because animals cannot defend themselves does not give HUMANS the right to decide their fate. Humans are the mass consumers of salmon. Animals have always lived in balance w/ each other, over-fishing due to human needs has lead to lower salmon populations!
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killing any living thing is just plain wrong..............!...........have a heart.....@!
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I am outraged that people want to kill the sea lions when they were here first.So what if they eat the salmon they need to live just as we do so leave them alone and let them live there life as they do. I don't see you shooting bears because they pull salmom out of the water and eat them also only they leave them partially eaten where the sea lions devoure them completely. So leave the sea lions alone.Let them live as they know how to.
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Barbarity in terms of violence and murder of innocent animals is not the answer to the problem of human-induced environmental and ecological changes.
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