Northcoast Marine Mammal Center

Roses are red, harbor seals are gray, what is this month, it’s gonna be May On that note, meet our newest Pacific harbor seal pup, JT. See what we did there?

Here is a sweet update on former patients, Ravioli and Tomato! These two were local favorites and held a special spot in the hearts of many! They were rescued in 2017 as very young pups. Tomato was blind in one eye due to a dog attack and Ravioli had neurological problems and they were both deemed unreleasable. They spent their time here as pen mates and lucked out when Moody Gardens adopted them together!! Thank you Moody Gardens, Maggie and staff! We are forever grateful for all of you!

Between rescues, around the clock tube feedings, meds and wound care, our volunteers have been extremely busy these last few days! We have admitted three Pacific harbor seal pups due to injury and/or maternal separation. Flint, Nikita and Thomas are all resting comfortably but have a long road to recovery. Just $10 will feed and care for a PHS pup for one day! Will you help us help them?!

It's Happening! After more than a year of being closed! More than a year of no sales to buy fish! Locals, come show your support by shopping in our gift shop. If you can’t join us, you can make a donation here https://www.paypal.com/webapps/shoppingcart Online sales are not up and running yet but hopefully soon. We will keep you posted!

Hey Crescent City locals! We are doing an impromptu beach cleanup today. If you would like to help, come joins us at South Beach between 1:00-3:00 today. Look for our truck. We will have all the supplies needed. See you there!

This handsome dude is Jaws, a Northern Elephant Seal pup here at the NMMC, that has received life saving food and medical care thanks to Wags and Menace Make a Difference Program Foundation. Every year Wags and Menace donates money to help us save several marine mammals. Thank You Wags and Menace and Cindy Lee! We could not do it without you!

, ($2,000) ! Its not too late to help us raise the money for the other 7000 pounds of fish and pup formula we will need for the coming busy season.

, ($2,000) ! Its not too late to help us raise the money for the other 7000 pounds of fish and pup formula we will need for the coming busy season.

This is Ozzie, a 2 week old harbor seal pup we rescued last May. He was abandoned and emaciated. Our wonderful volunteer staff fed him formula every few hours, around the clock, for a few weeks. After10 weeks of care, Ozzie was successfully released back into the ocean. Please help us care for animals like Ozzie by supporting #GivingTuesday and NMMC. Please Donate!

! The global pandemic has put a profound financial strain on everyone, including the NMMC. Our funding is down by more than %60 for this year. We need your help to ensure we are able to continue rescuing marine mammals like Muffin pictured above. Just $10 will feed an animal for an entire day. Please donate! www.northcoastmmc.org

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! The global pandemic has put a profound financial strain on everyone, including the NMMC. Our funding is down by more than %60 for this year. We need your help to ensure we are able to continue rescuing marine mammals like Muffin pictured above. Just $10 will feed an animal for an entire day. Please donate! www.northcoastmmc.org

Check Out This Rare Albino Fur Seal Pup! https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov//rare-albino-fur-seal-pup-s

After multiple rounds of meds, subcutaneous fluids and lots of TLC, Sea Lionel Richie has left the building!! Cheers to a long, healthy life in the big blue! Check out the comments for some before photos!

Furgie was out grooming in the sun today. Now really, isn’t she the cutest thing you’ve ever seen!?!

Help us give a big THANK YOU to Cindy Lee and the Wags and Menace Make a Difference Founcation for the generous donation we just received. The funds will help pay for emergency medical care for several seals and sea lions. Thanks to them, other elephant seals like Sharka khan, will get the life saving care they need to be released back into the ocean.

Lucky sea lion ends up ON a whales belly not in it!

It was a great day for a harbor seal release! Ozzy, Blub and Shark Wahlberg were all released back into the big blue today. Ozzy and Blub raced into the water (Blub even caught some air) while poor Shark was backwards in his crate The others were waiting nearby and once Shark got out, it only took him a minute to catch up to them before they made their way out. Good luck little ones!!

Keep your eyes peeled for the latest addition to our gift shop: Pieces Of The Pacific. These beautiful, framed pictures are all hand made by one of our former volunteers. Each piece is one of a kind, using sea glass, agates etc. that her family found on our local beaches while they were stationed here in Crescent City, California. Although they may be far away (they are now stationed in Georgia ) we are thrilled to have her helping from afar!

The Pinniped Gift Shop opens tomorrow at 10:00 am! Masks are required. No more than 6 people at a time. We will only be open Thurs.-Sat. from 10-5. And we have lots of hand sanitizer!

Happy Monday! Ozzy came in as one of the skinniest Pacific harbor seal pups we’ve ever seen! Between around the clock tube feedings, meds, supplements, wound care, fluids, fish and lots of TLC, he has made an amazing comeback and is now eating fish and competitively feeding with our other pups. He has a bit more weight to gain but he’ll be released back into the big blue before we know it! These are your donations, hard at work. We thank you all for your continued support. We couldn’t do what we do without you!!!

Did you know that every year, hundreds of thousands of marine mammals die from being entangled in fishing gear and/or ocean debris? Once they become entangled, they can die of starvation, strangulation or infection as the entanglement starts embedding into their flesh. Yesterday we rescued a threatened Guadalupe fur seal pup. He was rescued with fishing gear wrapped tightly around his neck. This little guy was extremely lucky that he stranded before the net started cutting into his neck. We were able to cut him loose and he will now be rehabilitated and released back into the big blue. (Net pic in comments) We couldn’t do what we do without the love and continued support from all of our followers. The NMMC and our flippered friends thank you!

Sammy Dolphin Jr would like to say to everyone that made a donation to help us repair our animal pen drain problems. We raised more than the $3,700 we need. We are very happy because we all know how often these things end up costing more than the quote! At a time when things in the news are very disheartening, this is a reminder for us all here at the Northcoast Marine Mammal Center, that there are a lot of really great people in the world. THANK YOU!!!.

Smelton John found the overflow spout during pool cleaning this morning.

! We need to raise $3,257 to repair very slow drains. We drain animal pools to clean them and refill with fresh water every day. Over time, inferior drainpipes have become compressed into a narrow oval shape as well as being warped so badly they look like a roller coaster. The drains have now slowed to the point that they could cause bacterial problems for our patients. , ’ !