Sea lions are turning up sick or dead along the Central Coast in greater numbers than they have in the past. Dozens of young sea lion carcasses have washed up on local beaches, including 10 animals on one beach, Del Monte Beach, on Wednesday.
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Dead gray whale spotted in San Francisco Bay
Researchers are preparing to perform tests on a dead gray whale found floating in San Francisco Bay to determine how the animal died. A U.S. Coast Guard vessel on Tuesday towed the whale carcass to a beach where it could remain overnight before researchers take tissue samples Wednesday.
Sea lions slowly return to San Francisco’s Pier 39
Sea lions are returning to San Francisco’s Pier 39 after an abrupt disappearance that left tourists disappointed and experts baffled. The number is fluctuating.
Sea lion wounded in fall shooting to live at Vallejo park
Injured sea lion Sgt.
Famous SF sea lions may have turned up near Oregon
More than 1,500 sea lions that abruptly disappeared from San Francisco’s Pier 39 may have gone 500 miles north to the central Oregon coast.
San Francisco’s famous sea lions have vanished
SAN FRANCISCO — Last month, marine scientists counted more than 1,500 sea lions on fabled Pier 39, a record number that delighted tourists and baffled experts. Why so many
NorCal man pleads not guilty in sea lion attack
YUBA CITY, Calif. — A Sacramento fisherman accused of shooting a sea lion in the head in November has pleaded not guilty to a felony charge of cruelty to animals. Forty-three-year-old Larry Legans entered the plea Monday in a Sutter County courtroom
Wounded sea lion slips to critical condition
The sea lion allegedly shot by a fisherman in the Sacramento River is in critical condition after being rescued Saturday and might not survive. Experts and volunteers from the Marine Mammal Center rescued the animal from a floating dock in Knights Landing on Saturday, then transported it to their treatment center in Sausalito
Wounded sea lion returns to Delta
The sea lion observed Monday in Clarksburg has a head wound. Sacramento’s injured sea lion returned to the Delta on Monday, popping up in Clarksburg with the unhealed gunshot wound in its head still visible. Residents of the town, on the Sacramento River, notified the Marine Mammal Center after they recognized the animal from news coverage of the shooting.
Wounded sea lion seen in S.F.; 2nd animal apparently shot
The photo above of an apparently wounded sea lion on a Sacramento River buoy near Martinez was taken Tuesday.
