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SAN FRANCISCO – A sea lion spotted in distress at a San Francisco<\/a> beach Monday morning has died, according to the Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center<\/a>, which sent volunteers to help the mammal.\u00a0<\/p>\n Sea lion dies on San Francisco beach <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The sea lion was found at a Presidio beach, just east of the Golden Gate Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n Video shows the sea lion in the sand as beachgoers move throughout the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to volunteers with the Marine Mammal Center, the sea lion likely developed domoic acid poisoning from algal blooms.<\/p>\n The California Academy of Sciences will collect the animal from the beach and perform a necropsy to determine its exact cause of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n Trend of sick sea lions along California’s coast <\/p>\n Big picture view:<\/p>\n This latest case is part of a growing trend of sick sea lions<\/a> along California’s coastline.\u00a0<\/p>\n Warmer ocean temperatures and El Ni\u00f1o<\/a> conditions are infecting bottom-dwelling fish, causing neurological issues in the marine mammals that consume them.<\/p>\n The Marine Mammal Center said last week that it’s handling a massive influx of sick sea lions across its 600-mile territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n Response hotlines are seeing between 200 and 650 calls a day, according to Katie D\u2019Innocenzo, public information officer for the center.\u00a0<\/p>\n Time is critical for these animals, as treatment with clean fish and fluids can lead to recovery if teams reach them in time; otherwise, the condition is fatal.<\/p>\n The toxin behind the illness, domoic acid, is the same substance that severely damaged or ruined Dungeness crab seasons in years past.\u00a0<\/p>\n Because bottom-dwelling Dungeness crabs feed on the same algae debris, concerns are growing about the potential impact on the upcoming commercial season.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story was reported by KTVU reporter Christien Kafton with information gathered from the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif. Portions of the story were reported in a previous KTVU story on sea lions published Sept. 4, 2026.<\/p>\n San Francisco<\/a>Environment<\/a>Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO – A sea lion spotted in distress at a San Francisco beach Monday morning has died,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,643,100,7700,101,103,102,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":["post-456585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ca","tag-environment","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}