As many of you have noticed nature happens on its own, the Sea Lions have not been treated well lately, they have been getting blamed for something that is not their fault! Due to climate changes the sea lions have been eating so many salmon because of how they reacted to the weather changes, how the weather has increased its temperature so highly. A fact that I once read and legally changed my mind said “Killing sea lions will not change the future for the salmon, it will simply distract attention from the fact that the greatest challenges to salmon recovery are not being addressed”. In most articles that I have read there are mostly negative facts towards the sea lion’s.
History
California Sea Lions are large marine mammals that includes …show more content…
Yet sea lions continue to be blamed for eating “too much” of their natural prey, and some say they must be killed to save the fish. 2007’s estimate of 4.7% of the fish to barely 1% of the run in 2012.Sea lions have been treated unfairly, they should get the chance to live freely.
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, sea lions were Slaughtered for their hides, oil rich blubber and even their genitals which the chinese pharmacists turned into a tincture, and intended to rejuvenate the aged, by 1927 fewer than 1,000 remained. This shows that back then and still going on today they have been mistreated and threatened. But a few decades after plummeting fur prices, that put hunters out of business but truly until 1972, 45 years after what the chinese pharmacists did. Imagine what else they could have been doing during those 45 …show more content…
Sea lions are mammals, like us, they encounter similar diseases and problems such as pneumonia, bacterial infections like leptospirosis, which affects their livers and kidneys, And cancer caused by pollution such as DDT and heavy metals in the environment. Other challenges include malnutrition due to maternal separation or lack of prey due to the effects of “El Nino” or other climatic changes and environmental factors. The most visible consequence has been the baby Sea Lions, which have show up stranded on beaches from Mexico to San Francisco for the past three years. But some in the marine science community are asking whether putting such animals back into the ecosystem is the right thing to do. Where are those sea lions going to go?, says Josiah Clark, a consulting ecologist in San Francisco who has studied birds and marine life for more than 20
History
California Sea Lions are large marine mammals that includes …show more content…
Yet sea lions continue to be blamed for eating “too much” of their natural prey, and some say they must be killed to save the fish. 2007’s estimate of 4.7% of the fish to barely 1% of the run in 2012.Sea lions have been treated unfairly, they should get the chance to live freely.
Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, sea lions were Slaughtered for their hides, oil rich blubber and even their genitals which the chinese pharmacists turned into a tincture, and intended to rejuvenate the aged, by 1927 fewer than 1,000 remained. This shows that back then and still going on today they have been mistreated and threatened. But a few decades after plummeting fur prices, that put hunters out of business but truly until 1972, 45 years after what the chinese pharmacists did. Imagine what else they could have been doing during those 45 …show more content…
Sea lions are mammals, like us, they encounter similar diseases and problems such as pneumonia, bacterial infections like leptospirosis, which affects their livers and kidneys, And cancer caused by pollution such as DDT and heavy metals in the environment. Other challenges include malnutrition due to maternal separation or lack of prey due to the effects of “El Nino” or other climatic changes and environmental factors. The most visible consequence has been the baby Sea Lions, which have show up stranded on beaches from Mexico to San Francisco for the past three years. But some in the marine science community are asking whether putting such animals back into the ecosystem is the right thing to do. Where are those sea lions going to go?, says Josiah Clark, a consulting ecologist in San Francisco who has studied birds and marine life for more than 20