NEWS> UC Davis, State Wildlife Agency Identify Troubling Trends in Sea Otter Deaths

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Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:04:55 -0500

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Tue May 6 10:03:48 2003 Pacific Time

      UC Davis, State Wildlife Agency Identify Troubling Trends in Sea
Otter Deaths

?http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=
20030506.095607?time=10%2004%20PDT?year=2003?public=1?

DAVIS, Calif., May 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new University of California,
Davis analysis finds that adult sea otters in California in 1998-2001 died
in unusually high numbers from newly recognized diseases and in geographic
clusters -- all of which suggest that their coastal environment may be so
substantially altered that the species could be in jeopardy.

       The findings are particularly worrisome in the wake of last week's
report that a startling 100 southern sea otters have washed up dead on
California beaches since January -- 100 deaths in a population that has
been falling overall since 1995 and now stands at about 2,000.

       The new analysis, done in collaboration with the California
Department of Fish and Game, does not include those 100 otters, but its
findings may help researchers understand their deaths.

       "We are very concerned that the otters are dying so frequently of
diseases. This indicates that the ecosystem is very unhealthy," said
wildlife epidemiologist Jonna Mazet, director of the UC Davis Wildlife
Health Center and leader of the campus' longstanding otter-research
programs.

       The new study identifies the most important causes of otter deaths
in California and determines where otters are most at risk. It reviews 105
deaths of southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) -- all the beached
carcasses found in California from February 1998 through June 2001, the
most recent period for which complete data are available.

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NEWS> UC Davis, State Wildlife Agency Identify Troubling Trends in Sea Otter Deaths

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