I was watching CTV the other day and saw an piece about sea lion entanglement off the coast of Vancouver Island. This is one that is concerning BC marine animal experts (and me too!). They are saying that people should not be discarding things into the ocean after a sea lion was recently entangled in rope for several days recently.

As a fisherman, I’ve noticed this kind of garbage in the past and I’m not very happy about it.

Fishing gear, rope, plastics all effect the marine life and tossing garbage over boats and into rivers is just disrespectful and disgusting.

If an animal gets tied up in something like this they will die and very slow and painful death and there is no need for it. Just because you’re lazy doesn’t mean an animal should die.

Sorry for my rant – this kind of stuff is completely unnecessary and it’s gets me steaming mad.

At least the sea lion was able to be saved last week – that’s the only good news that came out of this story.