Here's what happens: The plankton eat algae that contains the acid, and then the fish eat the plankton, and the sea lions eat the fish — one thing surviving off another, passing on the toxic acid.

In Astoria, sea lions are an endemic presence along the Columbia River banks and especially along the Port of Astoria’s East Mooring Basin. The port has experimented with several nonlethal methods for ...

A toxic algal bloom has been spreading from Central to Southern California since February. KPBS reporter Melissa Mae updates us on how it’s affecting San Diego’s marine animals. A toxic algal bloom ...

Of all the schemes that humans have devised to keep sea lions from gorging on the salmon of the Columbia River basin, none has worked for long. Local officials and researchers have chased sea lions ...