by M. Tim Tinker | Mar 24, 2012 | sea otters
Brian Hatfield (USGS), Michael Harris (CDFW), and Jack Ames (CDFW) also contributed to this piece. In 1968 the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) began a program to attempt to document and examine all beach-cast sea otter carcasses in California and to...
by M. Tim Tinker | Mar 24, 2012 | sea otters
Gloria Maender also contributed to this piece. Sea otters living along the central California coast risk higher exposure to disease-causing parasites as a consequence of the food they eat and where they feed. Sea otters that eat small marine snails are at a higher...