1000 Flowers for the Planet - #593 Defend the Sea Lions
This Flower suggestion is prompted by a Sea
Shepherd campaign as follows:
“Sea Shepherd’s Sea Lion Defense Campaign on the Columbia River
Up to 368 California sea
lions face execution by Oregon and Washington state workers for the crime of
eating endangered salmon on the Columbia River near the Bonneville Dam. The
states are authorized to kill 92 of the federally protected pinnipeds annually
through June 2016. The sea lions will be branded with hot irons, hazed with
rubber bullets and explosives, and killed by lethal injection or shotgun for
eating less than 4% of the salmon at the dam. All of this mayhem, conducted on
the dime of taxpayers, takes place while commercial, sport, and tribal
fisheries are allowed to take up to 17% of the same endangered salmon and the
dam itself claims approximately 17% of adult salmon.”
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