The current reliance on Section 120 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act for sea lion control is inefficient and lacks the flexibility to address the varied impacts on salmon populations.

“there would be a process you could go through to get some management in place and be able to do that. The I guess I get quickly back to the to the sea lion thing. What we talked about earlier was the the 120 removals and then there was an amendment that was passed in 2018.”