The mammal caught a salmon for lunch. Bellingham Herald reporter Robert Mittendorf caught the moment a group of seagulls swarmed the sea lion in an attempt to eat the salmon. Rob McElhenney pays ...

sea lions eat fish species (often introduced, non-native sport fish) that prey on young salmon. Thus, killing predators may not have the desired effect at all. When states first applied to kill sea ...

They began killing individual sea lions shown to have been eating salmon at Bonneville Dam in 2007. Just over 500 winter steelhead returned from the ocean to Willamette Falls in 2017, spurring the ...

Sea lions are a success story. California’s rebounded from below 90,000 animals in ... Years of observational studies and analysis of their scat has shown that those present at the dam, 146 miles from ...

The sea lion “removals” or “cullings” are carried out by state and tribal officials each year to protect the threatened and endangered salmon that inhabit the river and its tributaries.