Sea lions weren’t shot

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The six sea lions found dead in traps near a Columbia River dam were apparently not shot to death after all, federal officials said Wednesday, leaving unanswered how the animals died or whether humans killed them.

Federal fisheries spokesman Brian Gorman in Seattle said preliminary results of a necropsy found no evidence of recent gunshot wounds but found shallow puncture wounds in one of the protected animals consistent with sea lion bite marks. The fisheries department is still trying to determine how the animals died.