Time to break out the rubber bullets

Oregon and Washington agreed to suspend euthanizing sea lions caught feasting on endangered Columbia River salmon until September while the courts consider a lawsuit challenging such killings.

The Wild Fish Conservancy and the Humane Society of the United States sued the National Marine Fishers Service last week after the federal agency gave Oregon and Washington permission to resume capturing and killing California sea lions.

"Blaming sea lions is nothing but a distraction from facing up to the more politically difficult reasons why salmon are in trouble," Kurt Beardslee, executive director of the Wild Fish Conservancy, said in a statement.

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