Here's what happens: The plankton eat algae that contains the acid, and then the fish eat the plankton, and the sea lions eat the fish — one thing surviving off another, passing on the toxic acid.
“This is this is the largest bloom I've seen in my career,” said Dr. Kelsey Herrick, a veterinarian with SeaWorld San Diego. “Up in Santa Barbara County and Ventura County, that's where the initial ...