Won’t see this nonsense in Oregon.
The sea lion population has steadily increased in the last several decades, but it has come with a cost, one being paid by already imperiled stocks of steelhead and salmon.
“The steelhead have a 90 percent extinction risk if nothing changes,” says Shaun Clements, a biologist and senior policy analyst with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Which is why Oregon has taken the drastic step of actively culling – segregating and euthanizing – certain individual sea lions.