Believe me, the issue of lethal removal of some Puget Sound pinnipeds was a topic of sometimes heated discussion during meetings of the task force's Prey Working Group. Given the efforts by some members to obfuscate even including lethal removal as a potential tool I am not at all surprised (but am very disappointed) that they have apparently chosen to not give the task force a full tool box.
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