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_Published 2024-05-03. San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf district is seeing a surge in sea lions._


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## Transcript

The numbers that we're seeing right now are over 1,000 we've counted them and there over 1,000 on this is unusual because well when they first came here historically in the early nineties, we did have these kind of numbers. In fact, they going up to 1700 sometimes but over the years that's the wind it down to an average. I would say between 3 and 400 in the winter and as the spring comes in maybe up to 700. So you're looking at you know, when was double the numbers and the reason they've arrived is there is a huge School of anchovy that was off the Farallon islands in the bay right now. So it's all about the seafood.

It's all about the food and these animals a lot of them are on their way down south at the moment a big herd of them are on the way down South for The Mating Season. We actually build these here and we have to use three times. The density of flotation that we do on the normal doc fees are custom-made to support these guys. We never had one single capsized yet, but you know for sure. It is crazy. I've never seen that many sea lions in one place and I heard about that place and we came here in a few minutes ago. And it's awesome to see them. It's very loud, of course, but it's really nice to see it's funny to watch them fight and and relax in the Sun.

You know, I don't trap they can be here if they want to be here, but it's just so cool to see them old so loud. The bay is very healthy right now. If it wasn't we wouldn't see these kind of numbers for sure. So it's good news all around.

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