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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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# 2,500:
2:14 pm PDT, May 10,
Daniella Roozenburg, Netherlands
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2:00 pm PDT, May 10,
Binon Carine, Belgium
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Martha Leahy, Massachusetts
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1:21 pm PDT, May 10,
Katerina Pappa, Greece
# 2,496:
12:51 pm PDT, May 10,
Shelly Ohman, Oregon
I am a native born Oregonian and I strongly oppose this senseless killing. Man created this problem in the first place with damming rivers and filling in creeks. Killing Sea Lions won't solve those problems.
I am a native born Oregonian and I strongly oppose this senseless killing. Man created this problem in the first place with damming rivers and filling in creeks. Killing Sea Lions won't solve those problems.
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12:37 pm PDT, May 10,
Michael Cryer, Colorado
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12:14 pm PDT, May 10,
Heidi Shuler, Florida
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12:02 pm PDT, May 10,
Name not displayed, United Kingdom
THEY ARE NOT THE MAIN CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF SALMON WE ARE.
THEY ARE NOT THE MAIN CAUSE OF THE DEATH OF SALMON WE ARE.
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11:29 am PDT, May 10,
Steve Holzberg, California
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11:20 am PDT, May 10,
Jeff Bridwell, Massachusetts
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11:11 am PDT, May 10,
Iris Chynoweth, California
I do not want to live in a world where profit rules everything.
I do not want to live in a world where profit rules everything.
# 2,489:
10:51 am PDT, May 10,
VICTORIA BiNCHI, Illinois
# 2,488:
10:46 am PDT, May 10,
Linda Hughes, Florida
Protect these wonderful creatures!
Protect these wonderful creatures!
# 2,487:
10:07 am PDT, May 10,
Sue And John Morris, Vermont
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9:42 am PDT, May 10,
Name not displayed, Ohio
I just learned that six federally protected sea lions were found killed on the Columbia River even though a federal judge issued a stay of execution for sea lions with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. I urge you to immediately repeal your agency's approval of a plan to kill up to 85 sea lions this year at Bonneville Dam. Sea lions are not the primary cause of salmon decline in the Columbia River and Pacific Northwest. In fact, sea lions kill 4.2% or less of returning salmon and steelhead each year. Dams along the Columbia and Snake Rivers kill over 15% of returning adult salmon and steelhead, and the incidental take allowance is currently 9%.
I just learned that six federally protected sea lions were found killed on the Columbia River even though a federal judge issued a stay of execution for sea lions with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. I urge you to immediately repeal your agency's approval of a plan to kill up to 85 sea lions this year at Bonneville Dam. Sea lions are not the primary cause of salmon decline in the Columbia River and Pacific Northwest. In fact, sea lions kill 4.2% or less of returning salmon and steelhead each year. Dams along the Columbia and Snake Rivers kill over 15% of returning adult salmon and steelhead, and the incidental take allowance is currently 9%.
# 2,485:
9:40 am PDT, May 10,
David Miller, Texas
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Rebekah Henley, California
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MIKE MLODZI, Florida
THANKSAZILLION SUPER LIKE THE SILVER SURFER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD REWARDS YA WHEN YA SAVE ALL GODS ANIMALS SUPER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE SIR JETHRO SAYS = YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE = HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKSAZILLION SUPER LIKE THE SILVER SURFER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD REWARDS YA WHEN YA SAVE ALL GODS ANIMALS SUPER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LIKE SIR JETHRO SAYS = YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE = HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Vercknocke Pascal, France
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Francisco Costa, California
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Donna Adkins, North Carolina
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Claudia FELLRATH, France
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Brandon Mears, Florida
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7:46 am PDT, May 10,
Name not displayed, Kentucky
It seems so contradictory that sea lions have to be killed and yet allow the possibility of more salmon to be fished. If you wish to protect the salmon, I would ask that both the sea lions be preserved, which take little of the salmon, and that the salmon quota to remain the same so as to preserve them both.
It seems so contradictory that sea lions have to be killed and yet allow the possibility of more salmon to be fished. If you wish to protect the salmon, I would ask that both the sea lions be preserved, which take little of the salmon, and that the salmon quota to remain the same so as to preserve them both.
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Anita Wurst, Colorado
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Petitjean Nancy, Belgium
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Hamel Emmeline, France
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Helen Pierce, New Jersey
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6:56 am PDT, May 10,
Gregory Harrison, Massachusetts
These are graceful spirits that have done nothing to harm humans or deserve the fate they are getting. THis is pure cruelty, and must stop! Please, I ask, let justice be done!
These are graceful spirits that have done nothing to harm humans or deserve the fate they are getting. THis is pure cruelty, and must stop! Please, I ask, let justice be done!
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Elisabeth Haynes, Massachusetts
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Becky Wagar, Canada
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Krishnasami Vasumathi, India
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Tabitha Woodson, Tennessee
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Name not displayed, New Jersey
You know what the RIGHT thing to do is, now please do it!
You know what the RIGHT thing to do is, now please do it!
# 2,462:
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Eileen Smith, Pennsylvania
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Roolandt Angélique, Belgium
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Vivien De Boer-Harm, Belgium
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Loukia Karneris, Greece
To Ms. Donna Darm, Assistant Regional Administrator, Protected Resources Division, NMFS I just learned that six federally protected sea lions were found killed on the Columbia River even though a federal judge issued a stay of execution for sea lions with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. I urge you to immediately repeal your agency's approval of a plan to kill up to 85 sea lions this year at Bonneville Dam. Sea lions are not the primary cause of salmon decline in the Columbia River and Pacific Northwest. In fact, sea lions kill 4.2% or less of returning salmon and steelhead each year. Dams along the Columbia and Snake Rivers kill over 15% of returning adult salmon and steelhead, and the incidental take allowance is currently 9%.
To Ms. Donna Darm, Assistant Regional Administrator, Protected Resources Division, NMFS I just learned that six federally protected sea lions were found killed on the Columbia River even though a federal judge issued a stay of execution for sea lions with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. I urge you to immediately repeal your agency's approval of a plan to kill up to 85 sea lions this year at Bonneville Dam. Sea lions are not the primary cause of salmon decline in the Columbia River and Pacific Northwest. In fact, sea lions kill 4.2% or less of returning salmon and steelhead each year. Dams along the Columbia and Snake Rivers kill over 15% of returning adult salmon and steelhead, and the incidental take allowance is currently 9%.
# 2,457:
4:30 am PDT, May 10,
Patrice Mykytka, Florida
ISN'T IT A LITTLE PECULIAR THAT YOU THINK I NEED TO GIVE YOU REASONS FOR NOT ALLOWING THE SLAUGHTER OF EVERY SINGLE SPECIES ON THE PLANET? THAT I DO ONLY SERVES TO ILLUSTRATE FURTHER HOW INCOMPETENT OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TRULY HAVE BECOME. I MEAN, TALK ABOUT LAZY THINKING...
ISN'T IT A LITTLE PECULIAR THAT YOU THINK I NEED TO GIVE YOU REASONS FOR NOT ALLOWING THE SLAUGHTER OF EVERY SINGLE SPECIES ON THE PLANET? THAT I DO ONLY SERVES TO ILLUSTRATE FURTHER HOW INCOMPETENT OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TRULY HAVE BECOME. I MEAN, TALK ABOUT LAZY THINKING...
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Silviu Dragomir, Romania
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