Appearance of snails, whales and snakes raises concerns that California’s coastal ecosystem has been permanently scrambled.
Eric Sanford, right, and Jacqueline Sones, left, walk through the tide pools at Horseshoe Cove in Bodega Bay, Calif. By Scott Wilson Scott Wilson Senior national correspondent focusing on California and the West Email Bio Follow April 17 at 4:02 PM BODEGA BAY, Calif. — The Pacific Ocean off the California coast is mixed up, and so are many of the animals that live there.
Instead, whale-watching boats are having more luck in the opaque waters off Berkeley on the bay’s eastern edge than in the open ocean. Three Grays have also washed up dead on bay shores in recent weeks, their stomachs empty. The door was not just ajar but wide open for several years. Today, there are still pockets of unusually warm water off California, doggy doors that continue to beckon tropical species that are strangers to its usually chilly 840-mile coastline.
Sones and Sanford, research partners as well as spouses, published a paper with several other scientists in Nature last month that identified 67 marine species now pushing the northern boundary of their commonly known habitat. Volunteers walk past pens where they are rehabilitating elephant seals to reenter the wild at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif. These seals are learning how to eat fish after being rescued in various states of despair along the California coast.
In 2015, at the ocean heat-wave’s peak, the hospital, which monitors 600 miles of California coastline, took in 1,800 seals and sea lions. That was three times the average.The center receives 10,000 calls each year on its rescue hotline from as far away as San Luis Obispo County, hundreds of miles to the south. On this day, three elephant seals — named Dayzend, Yazzy and Washbean by the emergency crews — are scheduled for rescue.
“Part of what was so unique about the blob is that it was warming we had never seen before, so there was no antecedent to compare it to,” Hazen said. “And it may be true that not all warm water is equal in its effect on fisheries.” Elephant seal pups lie on rocks at Horseshoe Cove. Skinny whales The Pacific was calm on a recent morning, a chilly breeze scalloping the surface, lit by sunlight fighting through low clouds. Lands End park sloped into the sea on the far side of the bay’s opening, and from high in the Marin Headlands, the Golden Gate Bridge appeared below with the city skyline in the middle distance.
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