Strong Smelt Return Attracts Larger Sea Lion Numbers To Columbia River As Springer Run Builds

Lookout… here they come.

Biologists counted about 1,420 California sea lions Monday nestled at docks at the East Mooring Basin in Astoria, which is double the 739 peak counted last year – which was a record high number over the course of long-running monitoring of pinniped presence.

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