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Action Alert:
Speak Out to Save Sea Lions Along the Pacific Coast
Published 02/07/08
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is considering allowing the states of Washington and Oregon to kill California sea lions at the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River in a misguided attempt to protect endangered salmon from being eaten by the sea lions.
NMFS’s proposal would allow Washington and Oregon to capture and lethally inject or shoot as many as 85 sea lions each year. According to the Environmental Assessment (EA) this proposal is the NMFS’s “preferred option.”
This crisis over endangered salmon and hungry sea lions is just one example of what happens when humans degrade an ecosystem. Please tell NMFS to choose a more effective and humane way to protect endangered salmon.
Comments are needed by February 19. So please don’t delay — take action and you may be able to avert this tragedy.
Background
Historically, salmon lived in abundance with sea lions and other predators on the Pacific Coast. That is, in abundance until recent decades, when overfishing, dam construction, logging, modification of rivers and streams, destruction of spawning beds, and other human activities imperiled their populations.
Born Free USA united with API believes that using sea lions as a scapegoat won’t save salmon populations in the long run.
More information including the Environmental Assessment (EA) can be found here.
How You Can Help
Please write opposing the proposed lethal removal of sea lions along the Pacific Coast. Comments must be received by February 19, 2008. We have provided talking points below to help with your letters.
NMFS is a national regulatory agency, so anyone may submit comments. However, comments from Oregon and
Washington residents are particularly needed.
Send your comments via regular mail, fax or email. Be sure to include in the subject line: “California Sea Lion Lethal Removal”
Garth Griffin
Protected Resources Division
1201 NE Lloyd Boulevard, suite 1100
Portland, OR 97232
503-230-5441fax
sea.lion.comments@noaa.gov
Thank you for making a difference!