Sea lions are disappearing

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: December 10, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The days of state-sanctioned sea lion hunts are long gone in Alaska, but fishermen and hunters who gunned down the sea lions are suspects in the latest study about the animal's crash.

Scientists puzzling over Steller sea lion numbers that plummeted about 75 percent in parts of Alaska in the last three decades have considered such theories as over fishing, changing climate, diet and killer-whale attacks.

But the consequences of fishermen blasting sea lions to protect fish or gear, and hunters harvesting thousands of pups for pelts, haven't been significantly studied, said ...

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