[Bboa-members] K Dock

[Hardinger, Ann]

Ahhh, now for the "rest of the Story"....
I just had a K-Dock live aboard come in and tell me about the buddhist ritual that has been going on here for the last 4 years. 
I'm the last to know these things. Obviously it was a non-issue until "Jaws" the rogue sea lion attack.
Apparently, the guys that operate the bait receiver schedule a blessing ritual every year with the buddhists, whereby they do release a couple buckets of little fishies and perform some chanting and blessings. I am not aware of the ritual, but now we know where this came from. Hopefully, they asked the fish to lead the sea lion back to happier hunting ground.

Sorry about that..I really didn't know about this..:)~



-----Original Message-----
From: Yana Edwin Murphy [mailto:edwinsail at yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:02 AM
To: Hardinger, Ann; Tom & Lori Jeremiason
Cc: BBoa-members at berkeleyboa.org
Subject: RE: [Bboa-members] K Dock


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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