so far this year there’s been 3000 pops
that have stranded in California all
along California thousand of them have
come here to the Marine Mammal Center we
help any Marine Mammal that is in
distress or in pain needs help we bring
them here to Sausalito and and give them
the care that they need with the
ultimate goal to release them back out
in the while we’re seeing an increasing
trend since 2013 of the number of sea
lion pups that have been basically
abandoned or being weaned early by their
mothers down in the Channel Islands and
they’re washing ashore all up and down
the California coast here we are seeing
a lot of sea lions that are just by
themselves they’ve just been hauling off
on beaches can you tell if this one is
looking a little skinny
yeah I’m just playing with a map make
sure exactly where you are got two feet
long he actually went into the building
here at first when the sea lion pups
started stranding we weren’t really sure
what was happening in January we had 50
sea lions which was ten times more than
we normally get in January and then by
March we had 400 as a numbers continue
to increase more and more than we
started to reach out to the biologists
the study of the sea lions out on the
Channel Islands where the sea lion
should have been with her mother’s mercy
we basically realized that this is
directly related to increased ocean
temperatures some of the water along the
California coast er is two to five
degrees above normal for this time of
year this is record warm water
temperatures in California that was
caused by a decrease in upwelling
upwelling is caused by northern winds
that blow warm water away from the shore
and cold water comes up and when the
cold water comes up it brings all this
nutrients for the fish and the sea lions
required these fish to provide enough
nutrients for their pups so basically
there was no food for the sea lion mom
to provide for their top these felines
are absenting over the sea
they’re raising the alarm about our
ocean health we’re a rehabilitation
center but we’re really a full-service
hospital
we have several veterinarians of
veterinary staff our ultimate goal is to
to be able to provide the best possible
care to any of the animals that come
here shooting clear
we’ll treat them for any medical
problems I have then provide them all
the nutrition they need then gain enough
weight and we have release weights we
want an animal to be a certain weight
that we’re confident when we release
time they’ll have time to figure out
where to where to go where to find the
fish we tend to release most of our
animals up in chimney rock up in Point
Reyes National Seashore where there’s
other animals of their same species
there that they can find and hopefully
be able to figure out how to make it on
their own this
that have stranded in California all
along California thousand of them have
come here to the Marine Mammal Center we
help any Marine Mammal that is in
distress or in pain needs help we bring
them here to Sausalito and and give them
the care that they need with the
ultimate goal to release them back out
in the while we’re seeing an increasing
trend since 2013 of the number of sea
lion pups that have been basically
abandoned or being weaned early by their
mothers down in the Channel Islands and
they’re washing ashore all up and down
the California coast here we are seeing
a lot of sea lions that are just by
themselves they’ve just been hauling off
on beaches can you tell if this one is
looking a little skinny
yeah I’m just playing with a map make
sure exactly where you are got two feet
long he actually went into the building
here at first when the sea lion pups
started stranding we weren’t really sure
what was happening in January we had 50
sea lions which was ten times more than
we normally get in January and then by
March we had 400 as a numbers continue
to increase more and more than we
started to reach out to the biologists
the study of the sea lions out on the
Channel Islands where the sea lion
should have been with her mother’s mercy
we basically realized that this is
directly related to increased ocean
temperatures some of the water along the
California coast er is two to five
degrees above normal for this time of
year this is record warm water
temperatures in California that was
caused by a decrease in upwelling
upwelling is caused by northern winds
that blow warm water away from the shore
and cold water comes up and when the
cold water comes up it brings all this
nutrients for the fish and the sea lions
required these fish to provide enough
nutrients for their pups so basically
there was no food for the sea lion mom
to provide for their top these felines
are absenting over the sea
they’re raising the alarm about our
ocean health we’re a rehabilitation
center but we’re really a full-service
hospital
we have several veterinarians of
veterinary staff our ultimate goal is to
to be able to provide the best possible
care to any of the animals that come
here shooting clear
we’ll treat them for any medical
problems I have then provide them all
the nutrition they need then gain enough
weight and we have release weights we
want an animal to be a certain weight
that we’re confident when we release
time they’ll have time to figure out
where to where to go where to find the
fish we tend to release most of our
animals up in chimney rock up in Point
Reyes National Seashore where there’s
other animals of their same species
there that they can find and hopefully
be able to figure out how to make it on
their own this
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