Videoed abuse of seals prompts nighttime closure of San Diego beach Seals resting at San Diego beach known as Children's Pool. On March 19, 2013, Mayor Bob Filner ordered the beach shut at night for two months after cameras set up to capture seals giving birth during pupping season caught people abusing them. / KFMB-TV/CBS SAN DIEGO San Diego's mayor has ordered a two-month nighttime shutdown of a beach after cameras set up to monitor a seal colony captured people kicking, punching and sitting on top of mother seals and their pups. Mayor Bob Filner said in a statement Tuesday that the La Jolla beach known as Children's Pool will be closed between sunset and sunrise until May 15. That takes the closure through the end of seal pupping season during which seals giver birth to and nurse their young, explains CBS San Diego affiliate KFMB-TV. San Diego, California News Station - KFMB Channel 8 - cbs8.com?? The 24-hour "seal-cam" was introduced in January and equipped with night vision so researchers and the public could watch the seals give birth. But the camera captured people abusing and harassing the seals and driving them from their resting places. Wildlife advocate Andrea Hahn tells KFMB harassment of the seals during pupping season has been a problem for years. We've had reports of poaching. We've had shootings here at night. We've had seal mutilations at night. The beach has been the center of a long legal fight over human access versus seal protection. © 2013 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.