Dr. Alissa Deming, left, and veterinarian assistant Malena Berndt give medicine to sea lion Patsy at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach in June. But “it’s not like this is a rabid sea lion running down the beach chasing people and biting them,” said Dr. Alissa Deming of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach. It’s not …
An algae bloom pumping neurotoxins into the ocean has rescuers scrambling to save poisoned sea lions that have washed onto Orange County’s beaches on a near-daily basis since the beginning of June. It’s being produced by a massive bloom of pseudo-nitzschia plankton that began off of the coast of San Luis Obispo and eventually spread into Orange County at the …
