California Sea Lion

Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) assessment.  

January to May 2015 (and again in 2016) - so many emaciated sea lions in California, both Steller Sea Lions and California Sea Lions. Here are examples of news items, you can Google many more

  1. • http://io9.com/california-is-in-the-middle-of-a-sea-lion-crisis-1691634431

  2. • http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/record-number-of-emaciated-sea-lion-pups-stranded-on-california-beaches-1.3071629

***California - California sea lion pup strandings 2013-2016 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/health/mmume/californiasealions2013.htm

Entanglement and culling of sea lions at open net-pen salmon farms:

  1. •Management of farms with regard to anti-predator nets has improved but entanglements still happen (e.g. http://www.marineharvest.ca/about/news-and-media/container/july-16th-2014/)  and open net-farms have licences to shoot “nuisance” animals.

  2. •The practice of sea lions being “culled” at open-net Atlantic salmon farm facilities e.g. May 2016 article http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/marine-mammal-massacre-ends-sea-lions-invasion-of-salmon-pen/article29322349/

  3. •2007 - 51 California sea lions die as a result of getting trapped in Atlantic fish farm nets near Tofino (April 20th, 2007).

General article on the problem of sea lion entanglement and the work of the Vancouver Aquarium team http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/03/12/sea-lion-rescue_n_4952149.html

Video showing disentanglement of sea lions.

Voices of the Sea - information includes sounds of California sea lions. Click on the seal and then click on the California sea lion at the bottom of the page.

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/sars/PO03casealion.pdf - Stock assessment 

Biology of California Sea Lions (note, not Canadian pages)

- http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/pinnipeds/californiasealion.htm

  1. -http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/education/marine-mammal-information/pinnipeds/california-sea-lion/

  2. -http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/sealions/facts.html

  3. -http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=50

Voices of the Sea - website where you can hear the sounds of California sea lions, see the spectrogram of their sounds, see video clips and learn cool facts from scientists! Click on the walrus and then click on the California sea lion at the bottom of the page. 

http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/eco/taxalab/carolinem.htm and http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/archivemammals.htm http://www.racerocks.com/
- involvement of Lester B. Pearson School in a fantastic marine mammal project.  Search the site at http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/web/sitemap.htm 

http://www.imma.org/pinnipeds/Californiasealn.htm - international marine mammal association's information 

http://srmapps.gov.bc.ca/apps/dss_coastal/html/marmam/caliseali.htm 

http://www.killerwhale.ca/animals-cal-sl.html 

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Zalophus_californianus.html Not a Canadian page

http://www.marinebio.com/species.asp?id=50 Not a Canadian page

http://www.imma.org/unfao.html - estimates of numbers caught in fishing nets up to the late 1980s click for our area (area #67)

http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/rreo/rreoref/mmammals/sealsandsealions.htm - report from 1984 from Michael Bigg and Peter Olesiuk; dated but still good natural history information

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jaap/pinn-ota.htm Not a Canadian page

Video from the Ocean Channel, to find it, scroll under the screen 

http://cetus.ucsd.edu/voicesinthesea_org/Flash/ - to hear your animal click "pinnipeds" and then click the image of the animal at the bottom of the page

http://www.dosits.org/gallery/marinemm/2.htm - click pinnipeds and then California sea lion for acoustic samples and http://www.dosits.org/animals/intro.htm - study how marine mammals make sound and how sound effects them. Not a Canadian page

http://www.marinemammalcenter.org/learning/education/pinnipeds/casealion.asp - This is an American website so be careful when using it for population estimates in BC and COSEWIC status in your report

http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/marine_mammals.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=48 - lots of detail about identification some information about  behaviour and threats. An international webpage. 

http://www.savethewhales.org/sealion.html - information from the American "Save the Whales"organization

www.oceanlink.island.net - Bamfield Research Station’s detailed marine biology page search for your species

http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/intermediate.asp?curGroupID=5 - Click "marine mammals" and do a search for your animal. Excellent on-line field guides. Not a Canadian page

http://netvet.wustl.edu/marine.htm  - net vet marine mammals; search links for information that may be relevant to your species Not a Canadian page