Who Should Survive: Salmon or Sea Lions?
This news story reports on how Washington and Oregon will start allowing the killing of sea lions in order to stop them from feeding on dwindling reserves of migrating salmon.
Do you think this is fair? Who should survive: salmon or sea lions?
--Valerie
MTV SWITCH
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Reader Comments (2)
Of course this is not fair. This is offering a false choice, which will only harm both species. Salmon and other big fish are dying off all over the planet. In central California, fishermen are blaming killer whales. Off the coast of Scotland, they are blaming birds and sharks. Near Japan, they're blaming squid. In Oregon, they're blaming sea lions. But the culprit in each and every case is us. It's the very fishermen who are looking for scapegoats. Humans are simply taking too many fish out of the water. It's unsustainable. Add to this the fact that dams are destroying salmon habitat and killing off thousands of fish in the turbines, and this is what is killing off the salmon. Sea lions belong in the ecosystem, commercial fishing and dams do not.
I'm not buying any more salmon from the NW, period. If those fishermen want to scapegoat sea lions, and hurt them, for their profits, then they will not get any profits from me.
Eso es una tonteria, en ese tipo de cosas no deberia de intervcenir el gobierno, se entiende que sea una situación dificil , y que la gente nesesita de alimento pero en todo kaso por ke no disminuir la caza de salmones. Quizas sea radical, pero debe de haber una mejor solución.