Fish farms are licensed to kill the animals to prevent them from attacking and eating salmon in the farm cages. Scottish Sea Farms (SSF) said the number of seals culled last year was 31% down on ...

Photo: David Sciora Farmed salmon. Stock image/Getty Seals may have feasted on an estimated 7,000 to 8,000 farmed salmon that escaped from a damaged pen in Connemara’s Killary Harbour.

The proponents of these bills claim that sea lions are invasive in the Columbia River Basin, appearing far upriver to eat endangered salmon where “they’ve never been seen before.” In fact, according ...