The adult sea lions are being found just as rescue centers gear up for saving sea lion pups that typically are found struggling at this time of year.

The animals appear to be suffering from exposure to a neurotoxin produced by algal blooms that accumulates in fish the sea lions eat.

Toxic algae bloom is being blamed for sickening several California sea lions in Malibu, Calif., according to a nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation center.

MALIBU — An outbreak of domoic acid is sickening sea lions in the waters off Malibu, according to wildlife officials. Workers at the California Wildlife Center responded to at least 14 calls for sea lions in distress over a four-day period, the center said in a Facebook post on Saturday.

Officials in Malibu, California, are advising beachgoers to avoid distressed sea lions recently reported in the area.

Alys Martinez reports from Malibu, where wildlife officials are busy trying to help distressed sea lions that may have been sickened by a toxic algae outbreak in the area.

For the fourth year in a row, toxic algae blooms are killing California Sea lions. Marine mammal experts are calling it unprecedented.