Two Rescued Seals Recovering, One Dies From Seizure

OCEAN CITY — Two juvenile seals rescued from local beaches in the last month or so and admitted to the National Aquarium’s Animal Care Center are on the mend, but, sadly, a third perished this week.

In late March, the juvenile Harbor seal was rescued from the beach in Ocean City by the National Aquarium’s Animal Rescue team and is now receiving immediate medical care and long-term rehabilitation at the facility’s Animal Care and Rescue Center in Baltimore. The young seal has been named Marmalade in keeping with the aquarium’s policy each year of naming rescued seals, sea turtles and other creatures with a theme.

This year’s theme is breakfast foods and two other seals joined Marmalade shortly after she was admitted to the National Aquarium’s Animal Care and Rescue Center. Another young seal, now named Lox, was rescued from the beach at Assateague Island and is now receiving treatment and is on the mend.

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