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Here's an In with
the New that's also a Farewell Favorite. Around 1990, fans of Seal
Rocks and the Cliff House said good bye to the hordes of sea
lions that inhabited the area near Ocean Beach. That's because the sea
lions migrated to Pier 39 where the they fast became the cheapest popular
amusement for tourists in town. Despite a short lived backlash against the
racket they raise, the fish they intercept from commercial fish catchers,
and their stink, the barking zalophus californianus were not evicted
from K-Dock. In fact, Pier 39 management has embraced them and celebrates
January 19, 1990 as the date of their arrival. Popular legend has it that
the sea lions migrated to Pier 39 to follow a huge herring run in the bay
after the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. The sea lions previously
left Seal Rocks for a period of years following the 1906 Earthquake.
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