Sea Lion Bill

[PolarBear]

https://www.votervoice.net/CCAPNW/1/Campaigns/38628/Respond
Support Bipartisan Federal Sea Lion Legislation
On January 27, Washington Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Camas) was joined by Oregon Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-Canby) in introducing legislation to better protect endangered Columbia and Willamette River salmon and steelhead from predation from marine mammals.  CCA was prominently mentioned in the Congressional press release , which included a quote from CCA's Gary Loomis.

The legislation would authorize NOAA, the states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho, as well as the Columbia River treaty tribes, to remove sea lions from areas in which they are negatively impacting endangered salmonid runs.  Under current law, the removal process is cumbersome, ineffectual, and only applies to the Columbia below Bonneville Dam.
Anyone who has visited Willamette Falls recently knows what a serious problem sea lions are.  A recent estimate from NOAA found that sea lions are consuming as much as 45% of the endangered Columbia River spring Chinook run.  Expanding populations of sea lions (California and Stellar) are having a significant impact on endangered salmon, steelhead, and struggling sturgeon populations.
Please take action now to send a pre-drafted email to your U.S. House member and U.S. Senators encouraging them to support a solution to this growing problem before we lose our remaining wild, endangered salmon runs and our fisheries.
 
It will take you less than 2 minutes, so please act today and share this with your friends!  Congress will only take action if they hear from all of us!

[Atroxus]

I don't really fish, but I sent copies anyways. 

[buckhorn2]

They flew over the lower colunbia and counted 6000 harbor seals and 1500 sea lions and 100 California sea lions.

[Curly]

only 100 Calif sealions?  are you sure it wasn't 100 stellar? 

[Katmai Guy]

Marine equivalent to the wolf problem, to late now.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Done.

[Special T]

the CCA has organised fisherment the way that hunters should be organsied IMO. They are an organisation that should be emulated.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Marine equivalent to the wolf problem, to late now.

Not to late... The Indians need to excersise there rights and start killing them all. I wish they would tell what caliber they shoot and I'd supply some great hand loads to support the cause!

[bigtex]

the CCA has organised fisherment the way that hunters should be organsied IMO. They are an organisation that should be emulated.

[jeepster]

 

[lokidog]

They need to take out some of the stinking harbor seals here in the San Juans as well, they are eating much of the available forage that the salmon need as well as eating a lot of rockfish and lingcod.