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By Doug Olander Fishermen can slice the fins off hundreds of thousands of live sharks and throw them back in the sea without raising so much as a public whimper. But a fisherman shooting one sea lion can create a huge public uproar. Yet as we're threatening many shark species with extinction, an overpopulation of California sea lions annoys the West Coast. It doesn't make sense.
Laptop Battery Of course it doesn't make sense: Any issue involving marine mammals is charged with emotion. (Witness the recent furor off the northwest tip of Washington when Makah Indians harpooned a single gray whale.) Fish are cold, instinctive and slimy; mammals are warm, intelligent and cuddly. (Fishermen don't call sea lions "sea dogs" without reason.)
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Thinkpad In this issue, writer Bill Boyce looks at an issue stickier than a crown-of-thorns starfish: marine mammals. Many sport fishermen now view these creatures as annoying pests or even serious competition for limited resources.
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Microsoft With more and more fishermen - commercial and recreational - on the ocean, encounters with mammals are becoming more frequent in both the Pacific and Atlantic. In Hawaii, dolphins often make life miserable for those who want to pull baits for billfish; along the West Coast, sea lions often drive salmon fishermen crazy by hanging around a boat to help themselves to half the salmon hooked.
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Laptop Computers And in some areas, mammals cause even non-fishermen to lose patience. For years, fisheries agents tried a host of sometimes desperate strategies to keep sea lions away from the entrance to the Ballard Locks in Seattle, where the narrow fish ladder kept salmon and steelhead queued up unnaturally. In 1994, only 70 steelhead made it past the locks to spawn; historically the run was 2,500 fish. The huge decline wasn't entirely from sea lions, but - keeping in mind the appetite of a thousand-pound bull - they had a major impact.
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Laptop Computer Although that problem seems to have ended now that the three main nuisance animals have been relocated to Sea World in Orlando, Florida, fisheries agents ultimately had received permission to kill these three repeat offenders if no other solution proved possible. That's a response not lost on frustrated fishermen; sea lions turn up dead with some frequency, washed up on beaches with only a small bullet hole or two to prove how they met their demise.
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Desktop Computer In fact, fishermen shooting sea lions that interfered with their livelihood (mostly) or their sport (occasionally) was commonplace until the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) of 1972. Since then, all pinnipeds have been protected by law.
Notebooks Now plenty of voices - and not just those of fishermen - are suggesting it's time to rethink protection for sea lions. With minimal predation or threat from man, they have flourished. Their populations are growing at a phenomenal 7 to 10 percent annually. Ask central California boat owners about their frequent hassles these days just getting to their moored boats, stepping around seal dung as well as around bold, even aggressive sea lions, which have literally taken over some docks as their haul-outs.
Lenovo A report pending with the National Marine Fisheries Service suggests reinstating a provision to the MMPA allowing fishermen to kill a seal or sea lion as "a last resort" to protect their catch or gear - though only for certain fishermen in certain areas. That authority was removed from the MMPA in 1994.
Hard Drive Such authority to kill sea lions notwithstanding, I certainly don't advocate wanton shooting of marine mammals. On the other hand, I also think it's a mistake to let the cute, doe-eyed (and sharp-toothed) faces of sea lions blind us to an ecological threat that may be looming as sea lion populations mushroom. They shoot deer, don't they?
Travelstar Without the controlled harvest of sport hunting, we'd find deer populations quickly threatening farmlands, presenting a hazard to traffic and becoming rife with weak, sickly animals without natural predation, competing for limited forage. The same may be true of sea lions, and if population control becomes necessary, then it should be done despite the inevitable protests that will precede and follow.
Gateway But beyond any major ecological problems, the "skirmishes at sea" may be something anglers will have to live with. After all, we're practicing our sport on their turf. If crows, coyotes and raccoons are smart enough to flourish by taking advantage of food we make available, how can we expect less from even more intelligent cetaceans and pinnipeds? It's hard to not admire their adaptability. I think we have to find ways to be even more clever, adjusting to and outsmarting them to save our baits and our fish. For anglers in some areas, that just may become one of the major challenges as we enter the next millenium.
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