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media type="custom" key="3657475" Steller Sea Lion By **Aaron M.**

There are many endangered Steller Sea Lions across the world. They are usually darker on the chest. Adult males mesure up to 2.8-3.2 meters in length and weigh an average 566 kilogram. Females reach 2.9 meters in length and 263 kilograms in weight.

The Steller sea lion can be found from the North Pacific Ocean from California to northern Japan. There are two distinct populations seperated by genetics. The western population which live in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Russia, and small numbers in Japan. The eastern populations which live from California, to Oregon, British, Columbia, and Southeast Alaska. Individuals have been known to wander as far as Bahia and Huanghia Seas in China.

The Steller sea lion forages near the shore for fish such as walleye pollock, herring, capelin, mackerel, rock fish, and salmon. Steller sea lions also eat cephalods such as squid and octopus.

In 2000 the Steller sea lion was estimated to have a global population of about 85,000, a decline of more than 50% since 1960 when an estimated 240,300,000 Steller sea lions lived worldwide. Man has probably been the greatest threat to sea lion safety. Steller sea lions are sometimes killed intentionally by fishermen as they are seen as competitors and a threat to fish stock.

We can save this animal by start doing doing something about the climate change. Some people don't understand that once the creature is gone another creature is gone and so on once the animals are gone they don't come back.