I live in the area. There was a letter to the editor in the OC Register this morning from a Laguna Beach resident claiming that sea lions are "cold blooded killers" that play with their food and will take one bite out of a fish & throw the rest away - that they're destroying our fishing industry and should be shot.
IMHO, it's a classic case of expanding human population bumping against wild nature. The result is never good for the wild things near the "border".
Peski
"Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of something is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals. Except the weasel." - Homer Simpson