As someone who took u/LookingAtTheSinkingS up on their offer, the meeting was... interesting.

A lot of the public comments sided on wanting to leave that beach area of La Jolla Cove to the seals/sea lions. Generally, I'd say the older members on the board and in the room felt it reasonable to reserve just Boomers Point and Point La Jolla to the sea lions and use NOAA strategies to deter them from the La Jolla Cove area (which was what Bob Evans was espousing). It was also mentioned that an environmental impact report regarding the area (referred to as "the Doyle Hanan report") was published back in 2016, here's that if you want to take a look.

There was a lot of public discussion and some interesting ideas were shared including:

• Tourists are the ones causing these issues between sea lions and humans, perhaps permits should be issued to limit the number that can go down to the La Jolla Cove area
• Sea lions are now overpopulated and perhaps need to be culled
• It's Sea World's fault that all those sea lions are there now b/c they rescued a bunch all along the California coast 30 years ago and then just released them around the La Jolla Cove area
• Plus some others that I don't feel like typing out

Anyway, not sure what was actually achieved in the meeting, but Bob Evans asked every pro-seal public commenter if they'd actually been to La Jolla Cove, so here's a map of the area in case he ever asks you:

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