Sea lion predation of salmon increases
Steller sea lion consumption of spawning salmon and steelhead in the waters below the lower Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam continued its upward trend during the late winter-spring of 2013, according to a year-end report prepared by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers research team.

#Consumption of white sturgeon below the Corps-operated hydro project, however, was the lowest in years.

#The Corps has since 2002 been from early winter through May marine mammal predation in the area below the dam.

#Since the turn of the century a growing number of California sea lions, in particular, had been assembling to feed on spring chinook salmon and steelhead headed upstream to spawn. Five different fish stocks that .... http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2013/nov/15/sealion-predation-salmon-increases/