Don't eat my salmon, Mr. Sea Lion!

[MillCreek]

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672267721/dead-sea-lions-with-gunshot-wounds-wash-up-on-washington-state-shores?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2059&fbclid=IwAR2mLx4EBwUgwsyNDe0Tm5XnRgt1gTtXBzwP2xa1KZx4g71XukgfzNniIbo

So what caliber for sea lion?  Full grown, a male is 6-8 feet long and weighs up to 700 pounds.

[sumpnz]

Saw that on a fishing forum.  Speculation was commercial fishermen did it, probably tribal.  Regardless nobody was exactly brokenhearted.

[BobR]

I have pulled in more than one fish head when fishing off of San Diego. Well in all honesty it did start out as a whole fish before Mr. Sea Lion go to it.


bob

[Perd Hapley]

Word has it they were preparing to go to college.

[Ben]

Word has it they were preparing to go to college.

Your mom goes to college.

[TommyGunn]

Who's that,  a 20 year old Wally Cox?

[freakazoid]

Since September, at least eight dead sea lions that washed up on the shores of Washington state were shot and killed with guns, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.

As apposed to what, harpoons?

[Ben]

As apposed to what, harpoons?

Or arrows. There were a few incidents in California where they and otters were being shot by arrows.

[MillCreek]

Many years back, the sealions in Seattle figured out that if they hung out by the fish ladder at the Ballard Locks during spawning season, they had access to a never ending fish buffet.  The State and Federal wildlife people were discouraging the sealions by shooting them with rubber-tipped arrows from crossbows, firecrackers, nets, and the like.  The problem was eventually somewhat solved by capturing some of the sealions and driving them down to California.

http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9804/08/trout.survival/

[Ben]

The problem was eventually somewhat solved by capturing some of the sealions and driving them down to California.

They did similar with sea otters in CA at the behest of commercial fishermen. Sea otters being smart, they mostly swam back to where they were relocated from.

While I will back up commercial fishermen regarding onerous regs, I have little sympathy for them regarding competition. If you can't fish better than a sea lion or an otter, tough potatoes.

I had to interact with commercial fishermen a bit in my job, mostly at Coast Guard meetings, and frankly, I found most of them to be big babies. They would cuss the gov up and down about regs, but then make demands like relocating entire populations of animals that competed with them. Many of them were also anti-oil and happily encouraged the gov to go after and restrict oil companies from doing their business. Honestly, they reminded me of the stereotypical "gimme gimme gimme" welfare case.

[Perd Hapley]

Who's that,  a 20 year old Wally Cox?

You do not watch good movie films.

[MillCreek]

You do not watch good movie films.

Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day.

[Ben]

Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day.