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Re: LaJollaLight.com | La Jolla residents offer ideas on seals

waternuts — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:35:18 -0000

The City of San Diego has not put any group in charge of the Children's Pool which is a public beach. The Children's Pool is a public beach and is open to the public 24 hours a day. Enforcement of the Marine Mammal Protection Act is only done by authorized personnel of a federal agency whether that be NOAA or other federal authority.
Stopping the public from access to the Children's Pool at any time or harassing the public at the Children's Pool at any time constitutes violation of federal civil rights of the public. A local group is compiling a list of federal civil rights violations by animal activists and these will be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Then the IRS will be asked to REVOKE THE NON-PROFIT STATUS OF THESE ANIMAL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS FOR VIOLATING THE FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS OF THE PUBLIC.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Between the lines

waternuts — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:52:07 -0000

Scientists, who believe that pinniped colonies attract great white sharks, agree that the Children's Pool harbor seal colony is likely responsible for attracting the great white shark that attacked and killed a swimmer off Solana Beach in 2008 because it is the closest pinniped colony to Solana Beach. The San Diego City Council has received and will consider this information and much more additional information before making a marine mammal park decision for the Children's Pool public beach.

La Jolla Friends of the Great White Sharks

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Seals barrier installed despite appeal

waternuts — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:03:36 -0000

The ocean area around the Children's Pool will be monitored year round by a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) beginning in January with the pupping season. The ROV program will monitor the seals and look for predatory white sharks. The beach at the Children's Pool will continue to be used by people to enter and exit the ocean. People will be swimming with the new seal pups in the ocean around the Children's Pool beginning with pupping season in January. Dead seals on the seafloor around the Children's Pool have been found and some of them appear to have been bitten by white sharks. As the seal population increases, there will be more concern with the presence of white sharks in the ocean off La Jolla.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Fearing for the future

waternuts — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:48:28 -0000

A year round monitoring program of the ocean around the Children's Pool will be done with a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) and this program will begin with the pupping season in January. People will continue to use the Children's Pool beach to enter and exit the ocean year round. There will be people swimming with the new seal pups during pupping season in the ocean around the Children's Pool. The ROV monitoring program will monitor the harbor seals and potential problems from predatory white sharks. Dead harbor seals are found in the seafloor around the Children's Pool and it appears some of these may have died from white shark bites. As the seal population increases, so does the attraction for white sharks and the ROV monitoring program should detect the presence of white sharks in the area around the Children's Pool.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Out with the activists

waternuts — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:00:24 -0000

Now that the seals will remain at the Children's Pool and share it with people, it is time for the public to enjoy the seals in their environment. Soon swimmers will be joining the new seal pups and their mother seals in the ocean area just outside the Children's Pool beginning with the new pupping season. Also, monitoring the seals in the ocean area of the Children's Pool will be done year round with a new ROV system paid for by private citizens.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Seals: Should they stay or should they go?

waternuts — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:22:50 -0000

A private group has received financial support to conduct Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) monitoring of the ocean area around the Children's Pool to study the harbor seals in the Children's Pool area. Monitoring of the harbor seals using of the ROV will begin with the upcoming pupping season and monitoring can be done year round.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Seals: Should they stay or should they go?

waternuts — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:26:02 -0000

The seals will remain on the beach and use it with people. The pupping season rope is only a guideline rope. There will be day and night beach tours for people on the beach during the pupping season beyond the rope and there will be swim tours to the ocean outside the Children's Pool that will allow people to swim with the new seal pups and the mother seals. There will be a pupping season docent table on the beach and new seal security guards on the beach at night.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Start planning for Casa Beach

waternuts — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:10:27 -0000

Thank you to the San Diego mayor's office or confirming that the favored marine mammal park formula for the Children's Pool is the current system of joint use between people and seals.

The CASA BEACH MARINE MAMMAL PARK will have a new JOINT USAGE DOCENTS PROGRAM. There is a joint users protocol in place for the upcoming pupping season. The pupping season rope is a guideline rope and does not close the beach. Here is the joint users docent program for the upcoming pupping season.

1. Beach tours will be done by joint users docents during pupping season. These tours will go beyond the rope and around the beach during the day and at night at the Children's Pool.

2. Swim with the new seal pup tours will begin at Shell Beach and take the swimmers out in the ocean just outside the Children's Pool to swim with the new seal pups and mother seals.

3. Joint users docents will have a table on the beach daily during pupping season.

4. Joint user seal guards will patrol the beach at night.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Start planning for Casa Beach

waternuts — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:07:02 -0000

Thank you to the San Diego mayor's office or confirming that the favored marine mammal park formula for the Children's Pool is the current system of joint use between people and seals.

1. Beach tours will be done by joint users docents during pupping season. These tours will go beyond the rope and around the beach during the day and at night at the Children's Pool.

2. Swim with the new seal pup tours will begin at Shell Beach and take the swimmers out in the ocean just outside the Children's Pool to swim with the new seal pups and mother seals.

3. Joint users docents will have a table on the beach daily during pupping season.

4. Joint user seal guards will patrol the beach at night.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Learning to co-exist with the La Jolla seals

waternuts — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:28:56 -0000

There will be a new paid group of volunteers soon to protect the seals at the Children's Pool. Money is being obtained to create a new CASA BEACH MARINE MAMMAL PARK JOINT USE RANGER GROUP which will be at the Children's Pool day and night during the week and on weekends. This group will ensure that the seals are not disturbed by people while allowing people to use and enjoy the beach with the seals.

These guards should replace the fanatical pro-seal people which have caused nothing but problems for beach users and visitors at the Children's Pool.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Marine Life Protection Act panel selects hybrid

waternuts — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:16:27 -0000

Thanks to all the citizens, scientists and conservationists which participated in keeping the Children's Pool beach out of the MLPA plan. There was no need for closing the Children's Pool beach with the MLPA and now the plan is for joint use for people and seals at the Children's Pool.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Learning to co-exist with the La Jolla seals

waternuts — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:12:33 -0000

Thanks to the La Jolla Light for wanting to bring the two sides together on the seals issue at the Children's Pool. Starting soon there will be a CASA BEACH MARINE MAMMAL PARK JOINT USE RANGERS PROGRAM which will have a joint users docent program at the Children's Pool. There will be an information tent and table on the weekends at the Children's Pool that will be placed on the upper part of the Children's Pool beach. This will allow visitors to see that it is okay to come down to the beach and see the seals. The tent and table will have information for swimmers, divers, spearfishermen, fishermen and seal watchers on how joint use of the beach takes place for people and seals.

The on the beach docent program begins very soon. It will occur with the nighttime Children's Pool swim group and the swim with the new seal pups program which begins with pupping season.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Judge: Let the La Jolla seals stay

waternuts — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:31:41 -0000

We have opinions from several environmental lawyers and the conclusion here is that the Children's Pool beach cannot be closed to human access. The seals can stay but joint use is the end result here. The California Coastal Commission will not allow beach access at the Children's Pool to be denied to people any time of year. There can be a pupping season rope, however, it is a guideline rope and does not close any area of the beach to human access. The seals are used to the presence of people with no minimum distance existing between seals and people and this will not change because it is not necessary. It is the opinion of the San Diego Mayor's office that the seals are already taken care of with regards to the existing rules on the beach and that joint use already set up at the Children's Pool requires no further action by the city of San Diego.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Judge's ruling clears way for seals to stay at La Jolla beach

waternuts — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:30:51 -0000

The animal rights extremists have their own agenda without allowing other people to include comments on their actions. This "workshop" is for joint use of the Children's Pool by people and seals which is backed by the mayor's office and human access to the beach is guaranteed by the California Coastal Commission.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Judge's ruling clears way for seals to stay at La Jolla beach

waternuts — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:44:37 -0000

The CASA BEACH SEALS MARINE MAMMAL PARK COMMUNITY WORKSHOP consists of citizens, scientists, and conservationists who will help the San Diego City Council determine the marine mammal park usage for the Children's Pool. Animal rights extremists are excluded from this group.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Judge's ruling clears way for seals to stay at La Jolla beach

waternuts — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:31:45 -0000

Now that the seals remain, shared use will continue to be the policy at the Children's Pool. There is a new CHILDREN'S POOL MIDNIGHT SWIM CLUB which will use the beach late at night for swimming in and out of the beach. Late at night is a good time to swim at the Children's Pool because the seals at night will not move for anyone and are not disturbed when approached by people. The only time when the seals are disturbed by humans is when they may be startled in the early morning.

This new swim club joins the new SWIM WITH THE NEW SEAL PUPS program in which swimmers will leave Shell Beach during pupping season to swim with the new seal pups and mother seals in the ocean just outside the Children's Pool.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Busy week for La Jolla's beaches

waternuts — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:19:17 -0000

Everyone will enjoy the seals with their own type of sealabration. Starting with the birth of the first seal pup at the Children's Pool, the new SWIM WITH THE NEW SEAL PUPS ecotours will begin. Swim tours will start from Shell Beach and take swimmers into the ocean just outside the Children's Pool to swim and mingle with the new seal pups and their mother seals. The tours will last until the end of pupping season which is the end of May.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Busy week for La Jolla's beaches

waternuts — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:08:06 -0000

Thanks to all of the scientists and conservationists who helped eliminate the Children's Pool from MLPA inclusion. There is an overpopulation of harbor seals in the Children's Pool area and their overfeeding has decimated the fish populations in the ocean outside the Children's Pool. Dispersal of the harbor seals from the Children's Pool area can be achieved by the deployment of a new type of audio harassment device in the ocean just outside the Children's Pool. Several of these high frequency underwater audio devices can be placed at various locations outside the Children's Pool to drive off the harbor seals from the area. A private group is ready to pay and conduct this underwater dispersal program for the harbor seals in the Children's Pool area.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Group opposes barrier at Children's Pool

waternuts — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:59:07 -0000

Starting in January, the new SWIM WITH THE NEW SEAL PUPS ecotours program will start. The swim tours will begin at Shell Beach and will take swimmers to the ocean area just outside the Children's Pool to swim and mingle with the newly born seal pups and their mother seals. The new seal pups swim program will continue through the end of May, which is the end of pupping season at the Children's Pool.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Panel delays habitat decision

waternuts — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:31:49 -0000

Marine scientists, conservationists and fishermen all agree that the Children's Pool should NOT be added to the MLPA plan. The overpopulation of harbor seals in the La Jolla area has resulted in the overfeeding by harbor seals of the local fish population. The harbor seal colony is a major cause of the destruction of the local marine ecosystem in La Jolla.
This coalition of marine scientists, conservationists and fishermen have submitted reports to officials dealing with the MLPA program which conclude it is best to disperse the harbor seals from the Children's Pool AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Comments sought on mitigation report on seal dispersal

waternuts — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:19:02 -0000

There has been a lot of positive response and interest in the new SWIM WITH THE NEW SEAL PUPS ecotours program at the Children's Pool. The ecotours will start at Shell Beach and will take swimmers to the ocean area just outside the Children's Pool to swim with the new seal pups and their mother seals. The program begins in January at the beginning of pupping season and will last through the end of May which is the conclusion of pupping season. Already, there are a number of dive instructors and kayak tour companies which are interested in leading the new seal pup tours. There has been a very large response from the public which wants to participate in the new seal pup eotours.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Crime report Oct. 8

waternuts — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:39:25 -0000

After the marine mammal park consideration in January, the Children's Pool will remain as a beach for people and seals. The public will use the beach as they have so nothing will change.

Starting with pupping season in January, there is a new ecotours program called SWIM WITH THE NEW SEAL PUPS AND THEIR MOTHERS. The swim tours will leave from Shell Beach and will allow swimmers to mingle and swim with the new seal pups and their mother seals in the ocean just outside the Children's Pool. The seals on the beach during pupping season will not be disturbed. The new seal pup ecotours will last through the end of pupping season at the end of May

Re: DelMarTimes.net | Be proactive on ocean protection plan

waternuts — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:15:40 -0000

Starting with the beginning of harbor seal pupping season at the Children's Pool in La Jolla, which begins in January, a new ecotours program will begin. The SWIM WITH THE NEW SEAL PUPS AND THEIR MOTHERS program will involve swim tours which begin at Shell Beach and take swimmers to the ocean just outside the Children's Pool so swimmers can mingle with new seal pups and mother seals. The program will last to the end of pupping season which is the end of May.

Re: DelMarTimes.net | SD doesn't take position on MLPA proposals

waternuts — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:12:05 -0000

Starting with the beginning of harbor seal pupping season at the Children's Pool in La Jolla, which starts in January , a new ecotours progam will materialize. It is called SWIM WITH THE NEW SEAL PUPS AND THEIR MOTHERS and swim tours will leave from Shell Beach to the ocean just outside the Children's Pool so swimmers can mingle with newly born seal pups and mother seals. The program will last through the end of pupping season at the end of May.

Re: LaJollaLight.com | Letters to the Editor

waternuts — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:51:53 -0000

Ronald May should not give any money to the Animal Protection and Rescue League. He should give his hefty donation to the Hubbs Sea World Research Institute. Hubbs is the scientific institution which has done the research on the harbor seal colony at the Children's Pool. I suggest Mr. May check out the Hubbs research on their website. Hubbs deserves the money, not the animal rights people. The APRL group sells merchandise at the Children's Pool. They are only interested in making a profit.