Sea Lions Executed in Fish Murder Case
Wildlife officials have tried everything to keep sea lions from eating endangered salmon, dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns and boats. Now they are resorting to issuing death sentences to the most chronic offenders.
A California sea lion last week became the first salmon predator to be euthanized this year under a program that has been denounced by those who say there are far greater dangers to salmon – including the series of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia.
This is the second year of the program, which is administered by wildlife officials in Oregon and Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Who in their right mind would even try to get a sea lion not to eat fish? And what sort of lunatic do you have to be to think that the proper response to sea lion eating fish is to kill the sea lion?
We’ve become in a lot of ways very crazy over the past few decades – this is the liberal, we’ll-save-the-world mindset, triumphant. First to think that salmon are actually endangered, second to think that they are so endangered they’d better stop sea lions from eating them. This is what comes of thinking that the world is about to end because of Man.
Look, I can see the need to ensure water flows – as long as it doesn’t prevent farming – but has anyone thought about this for a moment? Are we certain there’s no other way to get increased salmon populations? No way to breed them a bit in captivity and release them in to the streams at the proper time?
Geesh!
Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.
14 Responses to “Sea Lions Executed in Fish Murder Case”
Caucus of Corruption
Okay Mark, I’ll bite.
In certain areas Sea Lions are like rats, negatively affecting fish populations and fishermen catch to such an extent that population control is needed. I guess instead of ‘rats’ maybe rodents or insects would be a better term. Where as we farmers set about trying to find chemical and non-chemical means to control our rodent population, it seems that the state chooses non-chemical means.
doug,
They eat fish. I doubt they can tell the difference between one and another. Might as well try to make them vegetarians.
Oh btw, there’s a guppy that needs protected down there in Caleefornia, have at it.
And should they successfully save the salmon from the sea lions, in a few years we’ll be hearing bout the poor endangered sea lions.
It’s always something with these damn hippies, and most of the time it’s a direct result of some stupid knee-jerk hippie plan.
This is the ONE reason I would agree to legalizing all drugs; the idiots on the left would OD, leaving the country to the adults.
Yeah, and the gypsy moth eats trees, weevils eat strawberry roots and apple maggots eat apples, yet we try to control them so that we can protect our states’ natural resources. Just because sea lions are large and some people like to look at them, doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be a variable in an equation when trying to manage resources.
aaahhhh, even MORE liberal stupidity.
So let me get this straight: Sea lions die as a result of wildlife officers culling them, and it’s all an insidious liberal plot to execute innocent animals for doing what comes naturally to them – but if sea lions happen to be in the area in which you want to drill, baby, drill then you’re absolutely fine with them being killed by oil companies?
aahhhh, more liberal stupidity.
like whales eh faux…oh wait!!
sea lions & geese are vermin.
so are TROLLS like 00, faux, all the forkers.
and the klan speaks…
speaks to the Nation of islam?
OR
the black panthers?
or r u both 00?
I can see thinning out the sea lions to protect the salmon. The part I though was over the top stupid was the things that were done before the idea to shoot and kill the sea lions was used. Dropping bombs that explode under water and firing rubber bullets and bean bags from shotguns to change the wild animals behavior was just stupid.