Marine Mammal Protection Act

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Sea lions have learned to come from literally hundreds of miles away to bitch-slap salmon at those dams, and you got strong sea lion numbers, but people are like, "Oh, no, no, you can't mess with sea lions because of the Marine Mammal Protection Act." And the Marine Mammal Protection Act becomes an impediment to restoring salmon, so you have healthy sea lion populations now which you can't mess with, and you have salmon which you're trying to help, but now you can't help them because you're stuck and got screwed by this other piece of legislation called the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and it's trying to do some necessary work to allow, again, like nuanced, thoughtful, adaptive management practices and get out from under a lot of like very burdensome, counterproductive regulations.

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It, it's, it's, it's good stuff, and I haven't even gotten to the main thing.

It's just like, why have you, did you not go to school? Like, it's just, it's like not even being, you know, for us, it's not even being able to understand English.

And I think that the support and the research that goes into this, it starts really pushing for the the animal liberation movement in a way that maybe from an angle that hasn't been accessed before, just kind of thinking about like the Save the Whales movement and the Marine Mammal Act that came about right around the time when the whale songs were coming about.

I think that if Very Bark is successful and people are putting money into it, we can be taking that money and turning it around and using it to research more ways for animals to be able to communicate and and of course, funding animal sanctuaries, because Lord, as more and more people stop eating animals, of course, we'll stop breeding them.

But it would be wonderful for the animals that are still in these farms to not be slaughtered, but to be able to go to animal sanctuaries.

The disaster declaration isn't the first resolution to address the sea otter issue.

Last year, Rangel, Haynes, and Petersburg passed resolutions seeking a sea otter management plan and for the federal government to relax sea otter protections under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

KMXT is supported in part by Pacific Marine Expo, a tradition in the commercial fishing community for over 50 years.

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They wanna drive their boat really near to them, or maybe do things that are even crazier like get in the water with them.

But they are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and so the federal guidelines actually suggest giving them at least 50 yards, um-

Okay

... because as you get closer, that would be considered harassment.

not an abalone left.

Sea otters are a federally protected species under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which means options for controlling the population are limited.

They can't be directly harvested, except for subsistence hunting.

The U.S.

But from the environmental place related to our work and ocean conservation, that's like defending like the Endangered Species Act, which is under attack.

The Marine Mammal Protection Act, which is also under attack.

So like the weakening of these bedrock policies that have been around for 50 plus years is happening.

And it's not like there was the Endangered Species Act and they're getting rid of it.

A necropsy found RU-68 die from blunt force trauma to the head on either August 17th or 18th.

The monk seal's death is a violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.

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They were in trouble.

And in the 1970s, they passed the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which said that you couldn't kill marine mammals.

2024, they did a population count.

And at the mouth of the Calitz River, there were 2,330 something sea lions.