More than 20 endangered sea lions have been found dead in the Copper River Delta this summer, many with gunshot wounds. The National Marine Fisheries Service has now quadrupled the reward for information on the illegal killings to $20,000.
NOAA Fisheries Sadie Wright uses a metal detector to examine a dead Steller sea lion found on a beach in the Copper River Delta.
“We’ve done this for a number of years,” Wright said. “And this year we’ve found a big spike in the number of dead sea lions on the islands there.”, they’d found seven dead sea lions in the area. Since then, at least 15 more have been reported. Wright said by this time in previous years they’d found about three or four.
This isn’t the first time numerous sea lions have been killed in the area. Wright said in 2015, fishermenthey saw as a threat to their livelihood. She said it’s still unclear what is behind this year’s spike. The endangered sea lion population is already facing challenges like the marine heat wave, and Wright said these killings hurt their chances of recovering.
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