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California sea lions versus salmonids

February 19, 2013 | By DAMIEN SCHIFF

  An interesting problem in wildlife law is how to regulate populations of protected species where one population threatens the other.  A case in point is the District of Oregon’s decision last Friday in Humane Society of the United States v. Bryson.  In this case, environmentalists challenged the National Marine Fisheries Service ...

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Sea Lion v. Salmon?

March 09, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff The AP has this story today about the ongoing euthanizing of California sea lions (protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act but not the Endangered Species Act) who apparently have been eating too many ESA-protected salmon.  The Humane Society is reported as opposing the killings on the grounds that, ins ...