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An 18-member task force will reconvene Monday and Tuesday in Portland to measure a plan to eradicate California sea lions eating imperiled wild salmon below Bonneville Dam.
The daylong meetings, open to the public, will be at the DoubleTree Lloyd Center at m N.E. Multnomah St. in Portland. The labor force will convene again Nov. 9 and 10, then deliver a written report to the National Marine Fisheries Service.
The meeting Monday begins at 9:30 a.m. and the meeting Tuesday starts at 8:30 a.m. At 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, the labor force will allow an opportunity for members of the world to identify additional data that may be of respect and submit written input.
The Pinniped-Fishery Interaction Task Force first met in 2007.
It produced a story that recommended, by a 17-1 vote, that federal authorities permit Oregon and Capital to get and kill sea lions specifically identified as nuisance animals.
That permit remains in force through June 30, 2012.
Since the programme began, state wildlife agents have captured and killed 22 animals and relocated 10 sea lions to zoos or aquariums willing to bring them.
In addition, they inadvertently killed six animals that became cornered in a couple of floating side-by-side cages in 2008 and died of heat stroke. Only one of those animals had been on the hit list.
The labor force includes representatives of state, federal and tribal agencies, scientists, fishing lobbyists and animal-welfare experts.
Officials are stressful to shorten the number of wild salmon devoured by sea lions congregating in face of a man-made bottleneck. The National Marine Fisheries Service in 2008 approved a waiver under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which allows the states to kill nuisance animals eating wild fish protected by the Endangered Species Act.
Animal-rights groups contend the sea lions are being unfairly blamed for wild salmon driven to the verge of extermination by many decades of overfishing, dams and habitat degradation.
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