[M T]

Even with overtime rules now and some limits on over fishing of forage fish, the industry it still causing forage fish populations to collapse far beyond their normal cycles.  As a result, the sardine fishery is again shut down.  Seal lions and pelicans are starving.  Paying workers overtime has nothing to do with it. 

I don't know where "starving" comes from.  Governmental agencies indicate that their populations are at "carrying capacity" and "large".

(Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife)

The U.S. population of California sea lions is currently estimated at up to 300,000 animals, all on the Pacific coast. From an estimated population of about 10,000 animals in the 1950s, U.S. California sea lion numbers have grown rapidly since the 1970s and the species is now at “carrying capacity”—near the highest level the environment can sustain—according to wildlife biologists.

(US Fish & Wildlife Service, 2006)

The [California] brown pelican is well-distributed throughout its known historical range.  Even the most conservative, available estimates indicate that its global population size is large, consisting of hundreds of thousands of individuals.  Local or regional populations may fluctuate in response to such factors as severe storms and to variable weather patterns such as El Niño that affect food supply.

[M T]

Even with overtime rules now and some limits on over fishing of forage fish, the industry it still causing forage fish populations to collapse far beyond their normal cycles.  As a result, the sardine fishery is again shut down.  Seal lions and pelicans are starving.  Paying workers overtime has nothing to do with it. 

I don't know where "starving" comes from.  Governmental agencies indicate that their populations are at "carrying capacity" and "large".

(Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife)

The U.S. population of California sea lions is currently estimated at up to 300,000 animals, all on the Pacific coast. From an estimated population of about 10,000 animals in the 1950s, U.S. California sea lion numbers have grown rapidly since the 1970s and the species is now at “carrying capacity”—near the highest level the environment can sustain—according to wildlife biologists.

(US Fish & Wildlife Service, 2006)

The [California] brown pelican is well-distributed throughout its known historical range.  Even the most conservative, available estimates indicate that its global population size is large, consisting of hundreds of thousands of individuals.  Local or regional populations may fluctuate in response to such factors as severe storms and to variable weather patterns such as El Niño that affect food supply.