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Originally Posted by IronNoggin
Close but not quite. Currently seals & sea lions consume around 45 - 50 % of all the chinook and coho that smolt from the Fraser River. HUGE impact. We'll simply take his killer whale comment for what it was worth - as in nada.
On the other hand, around 75 K or so chinook spawners are killed by FN's in the same river each year, with Fishless Ocean's blessing. Translates to one hell of a lot of potential smolts the following year.
But nope, let's curtail everyone one else, and tuck our heads firmly up our backsides instead... 
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Is there a study that shows seals and sea lions kill that many salmon?
Unless there is a dam or migration impediment I didn’t think they were that big a deal. A grown sea lion catch catch a healthy Chinook in the ocean unless stuck on a fishing line.