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What sort of management are you suggesting?

Sea lions aren’t a good fit for hunting. Evidently they are often very heavily contaminated with a variety of heavy metals and other yuckiness that is bad enough that WDFW employees have to wear PPE to handle the meat and organs. Besides that, there are some added dangers when dealing with...

I don’t know for sure if this is total removals for both the states and tribes. I think it is, but I’m not sure. These are the lethal removals.

Sea lion removals increased significantly in 2020, when NOAA finalized permits to the states and tribes allowing them to kill sea lions under the new MMPA amendment. The most important part of that was allowing stellar sea lion removal and not requiring individual animals to be identified as...

The sea lions aren’t congregating at Bonneville and Willamette Falls in significant numbers anymore. They moved to other areas this year. If the success of the program continues, and also works in the other areas when traps are moved there, I’d say things are working well. Those are big ifs...

I wasn’t trying anything. I remembered reading information about stomach contents of the euthanized sea lions, and I posted a screenshot of that information. I haven’t found anything yet showing sea lions keying into smolts in the rivers. I have seen a few studies showing harbor seals in...

So I just remembered that diet analysis is required in the Annual Report for Columbia Basin Management. Here's what the sea lions were eating:

Here’s a direct result of social media groups full of people telling each other that we have to take matters into our own hands. This is the kind of thing that hurts the angling community’s ability to advocate for proactive management of nuisance species...

Holy crap, Rob.

Cool. Just to clear this up for you - in 2015, an initiative was voted on that made the trade of ESA listed species or products made from ESA listed species illegal. It passed by nearly 3/4 of the vote. Sometimes it's better to not write down every thought that comes into your head...

I'll take your bet. What's the wager?

I’m not saying that anyone should support WDFW blindly. I said someone needs to correct misinformation and help the average angler learn the basic facts. Which is exactly what I wrote. The fact that you and Rob interpreted my comment differently demonstrates part of the problem. Both of you...

That’s ridiculous.

Nothing about fisheries management is simple.

The scary thing that I've been seeing for quite a while is that the general population of sport anglers is so fired up in opposition to WDFW that there's a possibility that they'd take any chance they could get to stick it to the agency. I think they'd jump on board with any other entity...

You’re passionate about it though. It really seems like you want to help change the world for the better. Environmental justice and equity may be your calling.

If it’s that important to you, you’re free to do it yourself.

I’m pretty sure the fee I would charge in order to put myself through that frustration is well beyond what anyone is willing to pay.

Our ancestors and our government (which is elected by us) certainly did destroy the salmon runs.

Last time I checked it wasn't the tribes who destroyed the salmon runs. It seems pretty ridiculous to complain about them getting to fish first.