{"id":813184,"date":"2026-08-14T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813184\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T08:34:13","slug":"sea-lions-force-temporary-closure-of-san-carlos-beach-in-monterey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813184\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea lions force temporary closure of San Carlos Beach in Monterey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sea lions force temporary closure of San Carlos Beach in Monterey<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/news-team\/c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc\" aria-label=\"Ricardo Tovar profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc_1714417997.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ricardo Tovar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>MONTEREY, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">San Carlos Beach has been temporarily closed due to sea lions returning to the beach.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">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<p data-node-id=\"2\">The city is asking the public to stay at least 150 feet away from the sea lions.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">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<p data-node-id=\"4\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[14854,344998,202621,7053,192,20285,19238,27429,60746,33716,7234,13544,3238,83008,79,67807,344997,16597],"class_list":["post-813184","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}