Help us push for full protection of the La Jolla seals!

March 13, 2010

What: NRC hearing to protect the La Jolla Seals

Where: City Council Chambers, 202 C St. 12th Floor, San Diego, CA 92101

When: March 17, 1pm

When you arrive, please fill out a comment card for SUPPORT, and put that you waive time for the APRL/LJFS presentation.

The proposal will be to:

1) close the rookery during pupping season

2) guideline rope the rest of the year

3) declare that seal watching is the city's preferred use for Casa Beach, and encourage MMPA enforcement

Please write to the committee members in advance to ask them to support the seals:

sherrilightner, martiemerald, carldemaio, and thank donnafrye for docketing the item! Please cc us at info.

Since the rope is only a guideline, the seals continue to be harassed during their pupping season, federal agents are reluctant to enforce the Marine Mammal Protection Act due to the city's current unmanageable "shared use" policy for this tiny 200 foot beach, and when the guideline rope comes down on May 15, there will again be a chaotic situation.

Click here to see the Union Tribune's endorsement of our proposal:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jan/16/protect-seals/

See www.savesandiegoseals.com for more info.