Sea Lion Predation in the Pacific Northwest | Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries

House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries · December 4, 2025

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Call to order and procedural rules

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Chair (identified in record as Chairwoman Hageman) calls the Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries to order, states unanimous-consent procedural permissions (recess authority; limiting oral opening statements to chair and ranking member), and grants Representative Bumgardner permission to participate. Chair opens the hearing on 'sea lion predation in the Pacific Northwest.'

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The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries held an oversight hearing on pinniped (sea lion and seal) predation on salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest, with NOAA, tribal leaders, and fishing-industry representatives testifying about the limits of current Marine Mammal Protection Act procedures, funding and staffing shortfalls at NOAA, and calls to expand area-based management similar to the Columbia River permit.

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