SANTA CRUZ — Volunteers with the Marine Mammal Center rescued a sea lion that washed up on the beach at Natural Bridges State Beach Sunday afternoon.

The Marine Mammal Center is a nonprofit organization and marine mammal hospital that rescues, rehabilitates and studies marine mammals in Hawai’i and along the California coastline. The organization received reports on its hotline of a California sea lion on the busy beach Sunday and a team of trained volunteers from the hospital’s triage facility in Castroville arrived at the beach just after 3 p.m.

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The sea lion weighed about 200 pounds and appeared to be in poor condition, said Giancarlo Rulli, a spokesperson for the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. It was reactive and registered the volunteers’ presence but was lethar

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