The well-traveled marine mammal was spotted far from shore several times before being euthanized this spring.
This year, more than a thousand marine mammals along the Southern California coast have become sick or died due to toxic algae, including at least six in San Diego.
Freeway, who was spotted far from the ocean three times, was euthanized in April of this year after veterinarians discovered he also had an untreatable protozoal disease.
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