Crowds of Sea Lions Keep Gathering on Moss Landing Roadway, Disrupting Traffic

Hundreds of sea lions have turned a roadway near Moss Landing Harbor into a regular gathering spot in recent months, repeatedly spilling into traffic and forcing authorities to figure out new methods to usher them back toward the water.The animals began gathering near the Moss Landing Harbor bridge in July, with their numbers growing over time, as SFGate reports. In recent months, they ve increasingly spilled onto the roadway, creating traffic delays and safety concerns for drivers and pedestrians. We were talking to the marine wildlife folks, the volunteers and such, and they were saying they re very social creatures, said bystander Tanirll Lieoner, speaking to KSBW. So two of them started, and now all of a sudden there s like 2 to 300 of them. California Highway Patrol officers have been using sirens, barriers, and shields to move the persistent sea lions off the road, but the animals keep returning. California Highway Patrol cars sirens blared to disperse a large group of sea l