I think you will find that in puget sound the population is no where near what it was 20 years ago. Back then drive through downtown Everett and you'd hear the non stop barking of hundreds of California sea lions. Not to side with or against anyone but it does seem strange, especially in a place with lot's of salmon like Alaska, that someone would use all that effort to kill a sea lion instead of just letting him have the fish and go catch another one. Or is the salmon population that dimished where you need to fight a sea lion to the death over a single fish?