Oregon Wants to Kill More Endangered Sea Lions to Save Endangered Fish

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Oregon Wants to Kill More Endangered Sea Lions to Save Endangered Fish

Leslie Nemo
Apr 7 2018, 10:00am
A case study in the unforeseen consequences of well-meaning attempts at wildlife conservation in the Pacific Northwest, so protective as to be counterproductive.

 

Every day at 6 AM, a team of Oregon Fish and Wildlife officers check the traps. The cages encircle docks—sea lions love sunbathing—throughout the Columbia River Basin, at a strategic point just before the Willamette Falls, a natural feature in a tributary of the same name. If a trap door is closed, officers barge the sea lion out of the river and wrangle the agitated mammal into yet another trap, before driving it 230 miles to the California coast, only to have the same sea lion virtually beeline back to the same stretch of the Columbia.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvxzdb/oregon-sea-lion-kills-endangered

[Smokin Joe]

 

[GtHawk]

In what way are sea lions endangered? They're a plague to boat owners in SoCal.

Conservation status: Like all marine mammals, California sea lions are managed under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) of 1972. They are not, however, designated as a “depleted” population under the MMPA, nor are they listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

I guess the sea lions in Oregon are a special sub species or something.

Oh Oh! It turns out it's actually those G__Damned California invaders that are causing all the havoc in Oregon! But since they are California sea lions the whole endangered seal lion spiel is a load of

But what's the deal, I thought Oregon was immigrant friendly, having been a sanctuary state for the last thirty years! But damn let's a slam California I mean they've been a sanctuary state for what, months? I think their both asses, but I am waiting for someone in Oregon to blame California in 3...2...1..

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Reminds me when I worked on a preserve area in California for an oil company.  It was a requirement when one first reports to work that an indoctrination into environmental practices to be followed, including the identification of the 6 animals considered endangered.  All were to be protected from harm.

One guy asked the question of what must be done if an endangered kangaroo rat was found caught by an endangered kit fox which was making a meal for itself.  Which do we help?

[GtHawk]

Reminds me when I worked on a preserve area in California for an oil company.  It was a requirement when one first reports to work that an indoctrination into environmental practices to be followed, including the identification of the 6 animals considered endangered.  All were to be protected from harm.

One guy asked the question of what must be done if an endangered kangaroo rat was found caught by an endangered kit fox which was making a meal for itself.  Which do we help?

I would say that if the fox was eating the rat the fox didn't need help and the rat was beyond it. But the correct answer is fox, what fox and I don't see no rat.