A mere 30 years too late, this morning on Fox News, biologists have now determined they are going to have to start killing pinnipeds if they want to have any chance of saving salmon populations in the Columbia system.
The same thing that commercial and sport fishermen have been tearing their hair out over for decades. One can only wonder if it's going to take another thirty years to get to the other dozen major river systems, on the west coast. Meantime the idiots in charge run around screaming, "climate change, global warming, rip out the hydro-power dams". No one knows how many salmon a seal will kill, like wolves, they kill for sport, but it's pretty clear that each female salmon lays from 2000 to 5000 eggs. Apparently biologists don't take math courses in college.
