SEA OTTER (Enhydra lutris kenyoni)
The northern sea otter, Enhydra lutris kenyoni, historically ranged throughout the North Pacific, from Asia along the Aleutian Islands, originally as far north as the Pribilof Islands and in the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Alaska Peninsula south along the coast to Oregon (Wilson et al. 1991). In...
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.523.7035 http://www.fws.gov/wafwo/newsroom/WA_NSO_SAR_Aug2008_final.pdf |
Summary: | The northern sea otter, Enhydra lutris kenyoni, historically ranged throughout the North Pacific, from Asia along the Aleutian Islands, originally as far north as the Pribilof Islands and in the eastern Pacific Ocean from the Alaska Peninsula south along the coast to Oregon (Wilson et al. 1991). In Washington, areas of sea otter concentration were reported from the Columbia River to along the Olympic Peninsula coast (Scheffer 1940). Sea otters were extirpated from most of their range during the 1700s and 1800s as the species was exploited for its fur. Washington’s sea otter population was extirpated by the early 1900s. In 1969 and 1970, a total of 59 sea otters were captured at Amchitka Island, Alaska, and released near Point Grenville and LaPush off Washington’s Olympic |
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