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US allows killing sea lions eating at-risk Northwest salmon

by Associated Press
| August 14, 2020 2:30 PM

SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. authorities on Friday gave wildlife managers in Washington, Oregon and Idaho permission to start killing hundreds of sea lions in the Columbia River basin in hopes of helping struggling salmon and steelhead trout.

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