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Third 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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