Humane Society files emergency appeal for sea lions in Ore.

April 19, 2008 By WILLIAM McCALL, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- An animal rights group isn't giving up on blocking the government and two states from harming California sea lions that are feasting on the spring chinook salmon run at a dam on the Columbia River.

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