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Sea Lions or Stealhead Salmon Which One?
Sea lions are eating up the steelhead salmon on the Columbia River Basin here in Oregon.
There are many sea lions, not many salmon. These salmon hatch in containers then are being set free to do there thing (and get caught by humans to eat ) and coming back home to lay there eggs for the next generation only to be eaten by sea lions before eggs can be laid. Humans are not able to keep up with feeding these sea lions.
Should the sea lions be shot so the salmon can live (before being wiped out entirely)? Scaring off these smart sea lions dose not work. Catching them and releasing does not work.
What do you feel about this?
If you never seen these sea lions in a feeding frenzy then it is hard to answer this question.....if you have then you realize how damaging they can be, and mean!!
I do understand this problem. Sea lions can eat any number of kinds of fishes, but they go for the large concentration of salmon at the fish ladders because it's convenient. Usually it is only a few sea lions that do this, the rest of them feed normally in the ocean.
Of course, the salmon would not have been in such a concentrated position if the river were in its natural state. But due to damming, etc, there are only certain places that the salmon can go up the river. And the sea lions get an easy meal.
And if you trap one of these sea lions and take it 1,000 miles away and release it, it will be back in a week. And all the scary noises you try to scare it with, it soon realizes that they are harmless.
Now it may be possible to catch the troublemaker and put it into a zoo. But if there isn't a zoo that wants it, I don't see much alternative except to very reluctantly kill it. Humans created the situation, so humans are responsible to regulate it. Otherwise the salmon will become extinct.
Unless somebody can come up with a more technological solution. How about an implant that gives the sea lion a shock when it comes near the forbidden fish ladder? They do this for dogs...
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