Sea Lions and Salmon in the Pacific Northwest

House Natural Resources Committee
   Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee
1324 Longworth

12/03/2025 at 10:00AM

On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries will hold an oversight hearing titled “Sea Lion Predation in the Pacific Northwest.”

Hearing memo

Witnesses:

Panel I

  • Sam Rauch, Deputy Assistant Administrator, National Marine Fisheries Service

Panel II

  • Ken Choke, Chairman, Nisqually Indian Tribe
  • Aja DeCoteau, Executive Director, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
  • Ed Johnstone, Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission

The Secretary of Commerce was authorized in 2018 to issue permits to certain Tribes and the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho to lethally take sea lions within the Columbia River and its tributaries.