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Stop Sea Lion Killing Plan

Target: National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Protected Resources
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:

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.

A federal judge is set to rule on this plan on May 8th, and until then no sea lions may be killed. Yet six federally protected sea lions were just found shot to death on the Columbia River at Bonneville Dam. Make sure no more sea lions die - tell NMFS to abandon its plan to allow killing of sea lions on the Columbia River!

Learn more from the Humane Society of the United States, Wild Fish Conservancy and Save Our Wild Salmon.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000

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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%.

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2:57 pm PDT, Aug 21, Marilyn Mick, Texas

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8:10 am PDT, Aug 18, Dawn Crichton, Barbados

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3:54 am PDT, Aug 18, Julie Van Niekerk, South Africa
The sea lions eat just enough to keep them HEALTHY. People kill the sea Lions to keep themselves WEALTHY

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8:26 pm PDT, Aug 17, Julia Menard, Canada

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6:37 pm PDT, Aug 17, Anthony Egan, Australia

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1:52 am PDT, Aug 15, Gail Dair, Australia

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8:58 pm PDT, Aug 14, Cassandra Holladay, Wisconsin

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7:15 pm PDT, Aug 14, Kristie Lyon, Missouri
If we would stop killing all the salmon for our gluttony than there would be no need to protect the salmon from their NATURAL predators. We are the problem. Let's take ourselves out of the equation and I am sure that it will all work out.

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5:42 pm PDT, Aug 14, Shawna Murray md, New Hampshire

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3:23 pm PDT, Aug 14, Courtney Mckinley, Ohio

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1:47 pm PDT, Aug 14, J T Butler, Texas
We currently have a very bad issue that needs to be addressed. All over our planet earth people/businesses/governments and others have seem to forgotten that the Earth is a planet that requires a good amount of balance to exist. Our ecosystem is getting worse all the time because people are changing the system by killing off animals that are part of the system. If there were in fact too many of one species of animal the ecosystem would eventually balance the system to bring it back to par. The issue is that man is treating Earth badly and eventually (if we are not already) will suffer for this injustice we are doing to our home planet. When these issue are addressed to your office, keep in mind that your grandchildren and their children deserve to have the opportunity to see the Earth as we do, with all of the different species of animals and plants. So when you do vote remember to vote for your heirs and allow animals/plants and the environment to be protected from mans current injustice to the planet Earth.

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9:33 am PDT, Aug 13, Melissa Fjerstad, Indiana
Why would you kill off one living thing just to let another living thing to live? It makes no sence. If you kill sea lions it's most likely not going to make a big difference, since they're NOT the number one reason for most of the salmon killings. It's called the food chain, sea lions are SUPPOSE to eat salmon.

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