NOAA Re-Authorizes Lethal Sea Lion Removal, Says Has Responded To Appeals Court Concerns

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NOAA’s Fisheries Service said today it is re-authorizing the states of Washington and Oregon to lethally remove specific California sea lions that congregate 140 miles from the Pacific Ocean just below the Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam to eat adult salmon and steelhead swimming upriver to spawn.

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