Reference no: EM133263883
1) Fast forward to 2020. What is the current outcome of the case?
2) If you were the wildlife manager, and it was your sole discretion: who would save? The sea lion or the Salmon. And why?
Answers should be based on this article/paragraphs:
"Of Sea Lions and Salmon-An Environmental and Ethical Dilemma"
(Background):
Animal rights groups continue to fight in court plans to trap and kill California sea lions that feed on protected fish species near the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia river. Oregon, Washington, and Idaho first asked the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in 2006 for permission to "take" California sea lions that eat salmon, steelhead, and sturgeon just below the dam, which acts as a bottleneck to fish migrating upstream in the Columbia River. The request was part of an effort to protect threatened or endangered populations of these fish.
But California sea lions are also protected. The Marine Mammals Protection Act bans the taking of all marine mammals, unless individual animals "are having significant impact on the decline or recovery" of threatened or endangered species. Another species of sea lion, the Steller sea lion, also feeds at the dam but is off limits because it is protected by the Marine Mammals Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.
In 2008 the states were permitted to kill up to 85 California sea lions per year, but the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court vacated that authorization in 2010. The federal appeals court said NMFS failed to explain why sea lions posed a greater threat to endangered fish than commercial fisheries and hydroelectric power plants. In 2012 NMFS granted another round of authorizations, this time to kill or permanently capture up to 92 California sea lions per year. The authorizations are good until June 2016, and allow the states to trap and euthanize individual animals or to shoot them under certain conditions. The Humane Society filed a new lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammals Protection Act. They claim NMFS simply recycled its analysis to support the kill authorizations without addressing the problems raised by the Ninth Circuit Court. The battle of sea lions v. salmon continues.
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