Wash. and Ore. authorized to remove salmon-eating Calif. sea lions

NOAA’s Fisheries Service said today it was 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 thousands of adult salmon and steelhead swimming upriver to spawn.

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