Real sea lion problems

[habanero]

I have no scientific evidence to back me up but I believe the these protected, unnaturally concentrated mammals kill far more wild life in La Jolla when compared to fishing. If "The Science" proved this accurate, how many blue shirts would support a culling program?

[MalibuJohnny]

While a deck hand on the BlackJack (way back when) It was not un-common for a member of the crew ( Captian #*@*&#!38 ) to sit on the wheel house with a #22 and shoot the seals at San Nicholas Island.
This took place while we had paying customers on board. I couldn't understand why he would take such a risk,...one day several weeks later, he was at it again and someone taped him while he was picking off the FUR BASS... Captian #*@*&#138 would tell the customers that he was shooting sharks. Anyway I believe he was charged with shooting and shooting at seals. (Later we started using seal bombs...)

I didn't stay around to find out what ever happened

[dgax65]

One of the reports on this incident mentioned that the California sea lion population is exploding. They said that a record 59,000 were born in 2008. I'm not sure if that was just in this state or throughout their range. Either way, that's a lot of dogs. I have a feeling that the GWS birth rate is nowhere near that of the sea lions. It will probably be decades before the GWS shark population comes into any sort of equilibrium with the sea lions. Until then, there will be lots of hungry sea lion out there. The promise of MPA's allowing fish stocks to recover will likely never be realized if the sea lion population is out of control. Ten years from now, when we have dwindling fish stocks and lots of fat sea lion, the DFG will probably decide that the MPA's just weren't big enough to protect the poor little fishies and they will close the entire coast.

[Billy V]

Originally Posted by dgax65

One of the reports on this incident mentioned that the California sea lion population is exploding. They said that a record 59,000 were born in 2008. I'm not sure if that was just in this state or throughout their range. Either way, that's a lot of dogs. I have a feeling that the GWS birth rate is nowhere near that of the sea lions. It will probably be decades before the GWS shark population comes into any sort of equilibrium with the sea lions. Until then, there will be lots of hungry sea lion out there. The promise of MPA's allowing fish stocks to recover will likely never be realized if the sea lion population is out of control. Ten years from now, when we have dwindling fish stocks and lots of fat sea lion, the DFG will probably decide that the MPA's just weren't big enough to protect the poor little fishies and they will close the entire coast.

Remember this argument when the MLPA People come back in 5 years to tell us that The Fish Stocks Have Not Recovered Enough -and- They Need to Close Off More of the Coast with SMR's.

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We need to start legislation to Cull Sea Lion, and Seal Population now.
That should have gone hand in hand with the implementation of any SMR.
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A Huge Reserve in La Jolla as proposed, and an Out of Control Seal/Sea Lion in the Same ares ='s FAIL.
A Large Failure.

[Willy]

*Sharpens pitchfork. Dips torch in oil*

Nothing to see here.
Move along.
Move along.


Willy

[BIGWEAVESTEVE]

maybe the gws are moving in, remember the swimmer in solana beach