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!
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