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First Place
Rick Loomis The Los Angeles Times
"Altered Oceans"
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The Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro,
California is frequently overrun by a California sea lions suffering from
domoic acid poisoning. The sea lions pickup the toxin by eating anchovies or
sardines contaminated with pseudo-nitzschia, which produces the
brain-damaging neurotoxin. Sea lions, suffering from domoic acid poisoning,
are dazed, confused and suffering from seizures. Veterinarians are forced to
euthanize many that suffer brain injuries as a result.
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