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Sea lions force temporary closure of San Carlos Beach in Monterey<\/p>\n

\"Ricardo<\/a>MONTEREY, Calif. \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

San Carlos Beach has been temporarily closed due to sea lions returning to the beach.<\/p>\n

The City of Monterey announced the closure on Thursday and explained that sea lions use beaches in the area as a resting point between their breeding grounds in the Channel Islands and Northern California.<\/p>\n

The city is asking the public to stay at least 150 feet away from the sea lions.<\/p>\n

Sea lions are a protected species under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. It is against the law to harass, pursue, injure or potentially cause injury to them.<\/p>\n

The public can report a sick, injured or abandoned marine mammal by calling the Marine Mammal Center Hotline at 415-289-7325. This includes sea lions, seals and sea otters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sea lions force temporary closure of San Carlos Beach in Monterey MONTEREY, Calif. \u2014 San Carlos Beach has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":999756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[7910,400391,136409,2451,746,97462,24485,58685,28948,67004,27951,449,12647,110090,159,39553,400390,2450,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-999755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-area","tag-breeding-ground","tag-channel-islands","tag-city","tag-environment","tag-fields","tag-ksbw","tag-marine-mammal","tag-marine-mammal-protection-act","tag-monterey","tag-northern-california","tag-point","tag-public","tag-san-carlos-beach","tag-science","tag-sea-lion","tag-temporary-closure","tag-thursday","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117092526630339121","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}