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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.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Apparently biologists don't take math courses in college. How can they when they are being indoctrinated to push other agendas?
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The way I first read this, I was assuming it was saying the Salmon are killing the seals...
Maybe I need to take up drinking coffee if I am going to keep waking up this early in the morning...
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Oh, the tragedy of the missing little hyphen. The thread title as written means Columbia salmon are killing seals. What you meant was the opposite. It should have read "Columbia Salmon-killing Seals." Or better yet, "Columbia Seals Are Killing Salmon".
I only clicked because I wondered how salmon kill seals.
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Still...you gotta admit I'm doin' fair for somebody that left high school before the diplomas were handed out.
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That title threw me also, but I just started my first coffee and thought it was kind of weird. But I'm still not fully functional yet.
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Sea lions, not seals. We fish the lower Umpqua and the seals are thick. We lost a couple of salmon last year to seals.
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I know, after that screwup, I'll start an new thread, titled, "Seals-eatum heap salmon". Followed by main text, "white doctor man say killem seals (or sea lions, your preference).
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Oh, the tragedy of the missing little hyphen. The thread title as written means Columbia salmon are killing seals. What you meant was the opposite. It should have read "Columbia Salmon-killing Seals." Or better yet, "Columbia Seals Are Killing Salmon".
I only clicked because I wondered how salmon kill seals. It's called clickbait. Consider this a lesson in modern journalism.
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Oh, the tragedy of the missing little hyphen. The thread title as written means Columbia salmon are killing seals. What you meant was the opposite. It should have read "Columbia Salmon-killing Seals." Or better yet, "Columbia Seals Are Killing Salmon".
I only clicked because I wondered how salmon kill seals. Like... Let's eat, Grandma not Let's eat Grandma.
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You wanna help Jack off the mule?
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Damn, I guess I’ll have to forego grilled salmon if it’s toxic enough to kill seals.
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You wanna help Jack off the mule?
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The story I read said that firearms will not be permitted so I assume some very expensive inhumane trapping, lethal injection method will be implemented. Which will create a public outcry and a court order to stop the killing. What would be wrong with a rifle bullet and let them wash out to sea? I've heard the Stellar Sea Lion can weigh over a ton. How do you properly dispose of a sea lion?
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This thread is worthless without pics of salmon killing seals.
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The Marine Mammal Act was as stupid as the Wild Horse and Burro Act, passed by bleeding hearts with no thought about what would happen when their efforts worked too well. Both laws have caused extreme overpopulatons with no legal means of reversing it.
I can't find the figures at the moment but the pounds of salmon killed every day by sea lions in the Columbia are astounding, something like 50k a day IIRC.
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It's a crying shame that the essential oils from pinnipeds don't make good boot grease...there is enough fire members demanding exotic boot greases to solve the whole dam(n) problem.
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The Marine Mammal Act was as stupid as the Wild Horse and Burro Act, passed by bleeding hearts with no thought about what would happen when their efforts worked too well. Both laws have caused extreme overpopulatons with no legal means of reversing it.
I can't find the figures at the moment but the pounds of salmon killed every day by sea lions in the Columbia are astounding, something like 50k a day IIRC. Yep
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