Water, Wildlife, & Fisheries Oversight Hearing | December 3, 2025

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

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Call to order and preliminary housekeeping

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Chair (identified in transcript as Chair Hageman) called the subcommittee to order, apologized for room temperature, and obtained unanimous consent authorizing the chair to declare recesses and to include members' opening statements in the hearing record per committee rules.

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A House Natural Resources subcommittee held an oversight hearing on sea lion (pinniped) predation in the Pacific Northwest, examining how the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act interact, reviewing the results of the Columbia River Section 120/120f program, and hearing tribal and stakeholder calls for expanded, area-based management and funding.

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