[Bboa-members] K Dock

[Yana Edwin Murphy]

Ann,
Thanks for your informative and humorous (a positive thing)
response.
I hope that the "crew boy" is  not on anyone's payroll at
this point.

Yana 

--- "Hardinger, Ann" <AHardinger at ci.berkeley.ca.us> wrote:

> At times, the bait receiver is cleaned out at the end of
> K-dock when the little fish die off..common practice, but
> this is not been the problem with the sea lion. I have no
> reports of "Buddhist Monks" releasing bait in the marina
> to feed the sea lion. That's a good one.
> 
> As far as the sea lion goes, he bit 1 (one) (uno) person.
> Thought she had a fish. Next day the media is all over
> this with vicious sea lion attacks 3 people!!! What a
> Crock. One particular crew"boy" thought it was real fun
> to tease the sea lion, making him jump up next to the
> dock and hitting him on the head for a while before the
> sea lion bit this lady..of course many reported this to
> us AFTER the biting incident. It is true that the sea
> lion would take fish off the dock, but he didn't bite 2,
> or 3 people. Just one. And it was unfortunate. 
> 
>  We locked K-dock to the public with the exception of
> fishing customers and we put into place a no-
> fish-cleaning policy on the dock until further notice.
> The Capt.'s of the fishing fleet have been cooperative
> amongst the growling and whining of their crews.
>  A 600lb sea lion is not going to be caught and
> relocated. Marine Mammal Center Tried to catch him, but
> catching a healthy sea lion is not something they nor
> NOAA (Marine Mammal Law Enforcement) wants to do. This
> animal was trained by foolish, childish (no regard for
> the rules or laws in place to protect animals or people)
> idiots. now we're going to un-train him by making it less
> interesting to come into the harbor. Takes time and
> patience. MMC also stated that mating season is soon, so
> we're hoping he just leaves. That's all that can be done
> right now. 
> Incidentally, shooting or killing the sea lion in
> Berkeley (was discussed as a last resort) is NOT an
> option. The fishermen would loose their right to do
> business here. Would be the death of Party boat
> operations.
> 
> Thanks for letting me know the scuttlebutt..
> 
> Have a good monday all.
> 
> Ann
> 
> 
>  
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yana Edwin Murphy [mailto:edwinsail at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:46 AM
> To: Tom & Lori Jeremiason; Hardinger, Ann
> Cc: BBoa-members at berkeleyboa.org
> Subject: Re: [Bboa-members] K Dock
> 
> 
> Speaking as a former Buddhist and current animal lover,
> if
> you reward aggressive behavior you're only asking for an
> increase in that kind of behavior. Sounds like the right
> thing to do is to relocate this sea lion far enough away
> that it won't find its way back here again.
> 
> Yana Murphy
> 
> --- Tom & Lori Jeremiason <jeremiason at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well only in Berkeley.  Here we have the aggressive sea
> > lion attacking
> > people on the K-Dock and now we have the Buddhist Monks
> > releasing bait off
> > the dock. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > According to one of our berthers, today there was a
> large
> > group of people
> > dipping buckets in the bait tank at the end of K-Dock
> and
> > releasing the fish
> > into the water.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I realize that some one thought they were doing the
> right
> > thing, but haven't
> > we our lesson yet.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Ann did you approve this?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Tom Jeremiason
> > 
> >  
> > 
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