The plan also treats too lightly the disappearance of sea lions from the islands off San Francisco and fails to effectively plan for the impacts of climate change, he said. "It is a status quo plan, not a recovery plan ... Given the sea lions' habitat is already changing as dramatically as any place on earth, you can't talk about the future, which a recovery plan does, without squarely addressing what that will look like 30 years from now." A new biological opinion scheduled to be completed in May will take a more focused look at sea lions and the fishery management conservation measures in place, said Lisa Rotterman, Steller sea lion coordinator for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Anchorage. Full Article at MSNBC