Humane Society Filing Launches Court Debate Over Columbia River Sea Lion Removal

NOAA Fisheries, in effect, rewrote language in the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and ignored other language, in granting authority for the lethal removal of California sea lions that prey on salmon below the Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam, according to a motion filed last week in U.S. District Court asking that the decision be rescinded.

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