Thousands of dead octopuses wash up on Portugal beach

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Looks like they went to Oregon. El Niño has made the water warmer so the fish moved to colder waters and the sea lions followed.

Sea lions showing up in Oregon

Tom Stienstra, Chronicle Outdoors Writer Thursday, January 7, 2010

The question on everyone's mind lately has been: Where have San Francisco's famous sea lions gone? The answer might lie about 500 miles north of the Golden Gate, where an estimated 2,000 sea lions have recently arrived off the central Oregon coast.

www.sfgate.com.../c/a/2010/01/07/MN281BE41C.DTL

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Originally posted by frugal
I heard a story in the news last week that 1700 sea lions left San Diego
pier #39 where they had been living for twenty years. They started leaving at Thanksgiving time. Maybe volcanic vents are opeing up in the ocean's floor. Or an earth quake is comming. Some other science show I was watching said that the oceans were warmer during the last ice age than they are now. If the temperature of the water changes the fish will relocate or die. If they go to deeper levels of water there may not be enough oxygen for them and they die, this happens in the summer in South Carolina. You'll see dead fish in July when it's 90-115 degrees.

Look for them at the warf in Monterey. Might be a little warmer and classier.
oops I didn't read the post above.
Mods please excuse me I just got sucked into this off topic post
Four seals should have eight legs(flippers they walk on them)

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[edit on 8-1-2010 by Donny 4 million]

sounds like you need to here the words of charles fort! (super sargasso sea!)