Web Search Results for "Sea Otters"

The Future of Sea Otters - Marine Mammal Commission
29 Dec 2025 at 4:05pm
Sea otters are still locally extinct in large areas of their range, including the coasts of Oregon and northern California. Sea otters help maintain healthy nearshore coastal environments and increase resilience to climate change, promote biodiversity, prevent shoreline erosion, and more.

Southern Sea Otter - Marine Mammal Commission
28 Dec 2025 at 9:26am
Sea otters live in shallow coastal waters in the northern Pacific Ocean. Two sea otter subspecies occur in the United States, the southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) and the northern sea otter (E.l. kenyoni). Southern sea otters, also known as California sea otters, live in the waters along the central California coastline. Historically, sea otters numbered in the hundreds of thousands ...

Northern Sea Otter - Marine Mammal Commission
31 Dec 2025 at 7:56am
Northern sea otters live in waters off south Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington State. The southwest Alaska population is listed as threatened under the ESA.

Microsoft PowerPoint - 1 Sea otters status and trends MMC.pptx
25 Dec 2025 at 1:54pm
Status and trends of sea otter populations in Southeast Alaska, 1969?2003. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009?5045., Reston, VA.

2 Sea Otter Ecological Interactions MMC
25 Dec 2025 at 5:00pm
Sea Otters and Ecological Interactions, California San Nicolas Sub-tidal sites Spatial variation in predators and prey San Nicolas, North Side (low otter effect)

Sea Otters - Marine Mammal Commission
21 Dec 2025 at 1:34am
Sea Otters This session focused on sea otter populations off California, Washington, and Southeast Alaska. The objectives of this session were to: 1) briefly review the history, population structure, demography, threats, trends, and status of each population relative to carrying capacity, 2) explore the role of sea otters in their ecosystems, and 3) gain insights regarding sea otter ...

Southern sea otter recovery - Marine Mammal Commission
29 Dec 2025 at 2:25pm
Southern Sea Otter Recovery Southern sea otter counts 1983?2019. Bars show raw counts for each year for the central California mainland and San Nicolas Island (SNI), whereas lines represent 3-year running averages. The annual census was not completed in 2011 (due to weather) or after 2019 (due to COVID-19 restrictions and plane availability).

pnas201302805 1..6 - Marine Mammal Commission
29 Dec 2025 at 12:56am
Before sea otters rst colonized in 1984, eelgrass fi was at an all time low (2 ha), and nutrient concentrations, al-though still high, were an order of magnitude lower than the most recent period of eelgrass recovery (Fig. 1A).

Marine Mammal Protection Act - Marine Mammal Commission
29 Dec 2025 at 8:45pm
These animals, including whales, porpoises, seals, sea otters, polar bears, manatees and others, have only rarely benefited from our interest; they have been shot, blown up, clubbed to death, run down by boats, poisoned, and exposed to a multitude of other indignities, all in the interests of profit or recreation, with little or no ...

THE ECOLOGICAL ROLE OF MARINE MAMMAL-EATING KILLER WHALES IN THE NORTH ...
27 Dec 2025 at 9:48am
Hypotheses regarding the impact of killer whale predation on pinnipeds and sea otters in the North Pacific Ocean were proposed beginning in the early 2000s. In 2004, Congress asked the Marine Mammal Commission to ?review available evidence regarding the theory that rogue packs of killer whales are wiping out discrete populations of the most endangered marine mammals.? An adequate response ...



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