Congress tackles growing sea lion population in Columbia River

By: Henry Brannan

Outlets: The Columbian

Published: December 6, 2025

Words: 595

Last Updated: 1 month, 4 weeks ago

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The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources took on the Columbia River’s salmon-eating sea lion problem in a nearly 2½-hour hearing Wednesday.

After establishing the scale of the sea lion population explosion around the Pacific Northwest, the meeting looked at the effectiveness of legislative efforts to address the problem — mostly centering around killing them.

The killings had largely faded from controversy as other proposed solutions to salmon extinction have floundered, leaving sea …

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