So far, 22 sea lions have been found, with signs of human interaction, including gunshot wounds.
The agency is offering a $20,000 reward for information about the potential culprit or culprits. That’s quadruple the offer from June, when the agency first asked the public for help in the case.
Raum-Suryan said the western population — which stretches from 144 degrees of latitude all the way west to the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands — was estimated at about 52,932 animals in 2020. That’s less than a quarter of what it was in the late 1970s, when it was estimated to be 220,000 to 265,000 animals.Like all marine mammals in the U.S., Steller sea lions have been protected by the federal government since the Marine Mammal Protection Act passed in the 1970s.
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