Also humans overfishing the sea lions prey, such as squid, fish and other sea creatures. The eastern population of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus), which ranges from Cape Suckling in Alaska to the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California, is currently listed as "threatened" on the Endangered Species List. The largest threat to sea lion pups comes from those within their own group.

Why Sea Lions Are Endangered The biggest cause of sea lion mortality occurs because the infants are killed while young. Australian Sea Lions are endangered because they are being hunted for their coat. The sea lions on many cases they are can swift swims to hunting prey and attack whatever they meet, They are can to be endangered animal when there are in underwater some report from wreck diving team but not by accident by sea lion threats because it just playing on the head of a diver. The western population of Steller sea lions was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in 1997, at the same time that the eastern population was listed as threatened. Sea Lions are endangered because they get either killed or hurt from fishing equipment, ship collisions, net entanglements, human interference and minig activity. endangered sea lions because the threat does not come from a degradation of their environment as is the case with most endangered species.