San Diego officials floated an update to the city’s plan to seasonally close Point La Jolla, with a new closure boundary providing more access to adjacent Boomer Beach.
The Sierra Club Seal Society read with dismay the commentary by Ocean Access Advocate Kurt Hoffman ("With more sea lions at Point La Jolla, great white sharks won’t be far behind," Jan. 6, La Jolla Light).
The city of San Diego needs to focus on the real problems on La Jolla's coast, such as the conditions at Ellen Browning Scripps Park and the danger of great white sharks attracted by the seals and sea lions that officials have helped lure, rather than the non-emergency of human/sea lion interaction at Point La Jolla.
As the city of San Diego explores a permit to close Point La Jolla during the next sea lion pupping season, animal-rights advocates went to the California Coastal Commission to plead their case.