States authorised to remove sea lions

California sea lions consuming salmon just below the Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam. Credit: With permission from the US Corps of Engineers

NOAA has authorised Washington and Oregon to lethally remove sea lions congregating below the Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam to eat thousands of adult salmon and steelhead swimming upstream to spawn.

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