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Nate Pamplin
133:50 - 134:23
"the bill has ceilings on the number of pinnipeds that can be removed. There's a potential biological removal under the MMPA and there's a cap of 10%. And even there, for instance, for California sea lions or Steller sea lions, I don't see us approaching that cap."
“the bill has ceilings on the number of pinnipeds that can be removed. There's a potential biological removal under the MMPA and there's a cap of 10%. And even there, for instance, for California sea lions or Steller sea lions, I don't see us approaching that cap.”
- Speaker
- Nate Pamplin
- Timestamp
- 133:50 – 134:23
- Source
- House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries (Begich): Legislative Hearing
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- July 21, 2026
From the transcript
And the bill has ceilings on the number of pinnipeds that can be removed. There's a potential biological removal under the MMPA and there's a cap of 10%. And even there, for instance, for California sea lions or Steller sea lions, I don't see us approaching that cap. It's just nice to have, I think, through the optics and making the bill political viable to have those ceilings in place. But the science on where predation is occurring, a lot of times harbor seals are, for instance, generalists.
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