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Found with his flippers tucked tightly against his body, California sea lion Pockets looked like a sick child with a bellyache.

Pockets was battling a potentially fatal bacterial disease, leptospirosis. We've rescued nearly 500 sea lions affected by this year's intense outbreak.

With your matched gift, you’ll not only help provide the meals and advanced medical care needed to help a sea lion like Pockets recover, but also support our researchers in learning more about this disease.

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All Caught Up

Our seafood choices can make life easier or harder for animals in the ocean

Ages: 8-11 years old

  • Entanglement
  • Sustainable seafood
  • Ocean trash
Activity

Learn about some of the different ways to catch seafood and how they can hurt or protect marine mammals like Calafia, a sea lion disentangled by The Marine Mammal Center and our partners in Mexico. 

Download the Seafood Watch app and create a personalized guide based on what you like to eat.

Then try out this quick activity to imagine what it might be like to be an animal entangled in trash.

entanglement
sustainable seafood
ocean trash
Upper elementary
8 years
9 years
10 years
11 years

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