{"id":510885,"date":"2026-03-03T04:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510885\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:50:12","slug":"hundreds-of-sea-lions-have-taken-over-a-vancouver-island-beach-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/510885\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of sea lions have taken over a Vancouver Island beach &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of noisy California <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/sea-lions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sea lions<\/a> have taken over the beach at Deep Bay on Vancouver Island, across from Denman Island.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>David Rosen, a marine biologist with the UBC Institute for Oceans and Fisheries, told Global News the sea lions are at the end of their six-month northern fish tour and waiting for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/herring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">herring<\/a> run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHerring are great food for both humans and sea lions because they are really fatty, and when they clump up in these big aggregations, they are pretty easy to catch,\u201d Rosen said. \u201cIt\u2019s like the ultimate buffet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Sea lion surprises swimmers near Victoria, B.C.'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SITE_SEA_LION.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:58<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSea lion surprises swimmers near Victoria, B.C.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>The sea lions have drawn crowds of people with many taking pictures, although people and their dogs are required by law to keep at least 100 metres away from marine mammals.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The sea lions are expected to be around Deep Bay until late April or early May, after which they\u2019ll head back to California for the breeding season.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Science and Tech<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of noisy California sea lions have taken over the beach at Deep Bay on Vancouver Island, across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,295,202997,51825,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-510885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-herring","12":"tag-sea-lions","13":"tag-vancouver"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}