Marine mammals block docks, frighten visitors, encouraged by boaters who dump their extra bait in the water
Sea lions continue to cause problems at the Oceanside harbor, and the city’s Harbor and Beaches Advisory Committee asked the federal government for advice last week.
“The problem with us seeing the action is that we are considered unicorns,” he said. “We’re very few and far between ... for the state of California, there’s only about six of us, and we are out there enforcing a lot of different rules.”Sometimes fishing boats returning from a trip will dump their leftover bait in the harbor, she said. That encourages sea lions to stay in the marina and wait for the next free meal.
“Nothing that would physically hurt them,” he said. Various types of fencing or netting are allowed, also noisemakers such as horns, bells, whistles, clapping, banging and even a starter pistol, and visual deterrents such as pinwheels, flags, streamers, flashlights and strobes.
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