Isn’t there any way to persuade our fishermen that they will erradicate the sea
urchin population here—Ventura & Santa
Barbara—and so be welcomed South?
Barbara Hilburn
On Nov 20, 2020, at 10:04 AM, shirley johnson (Redacted sender "thusone" for
DMARC) <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Want to save sea otters? The key might be moving them into San Francisco Bay
— away from great white sharks
Paul Rogers 1 day ago
…. But an increasing amount of scientific research is suggesting that if
the fuzzy, frolicking mascots of the Central Coast are ever going to expand
their population enough to be removed from the endangered species list, some
of them may need to be relocated north, to a new home inside the protected
confines of San Francisco Bay.
It’s a place they haven’t inhabited for nearly 200 years, but some fisherman
might not be ready to welcome them back.
The otters, whose population has stalled in recent years at around 3,000, are
stuck. They can’t expand their coastal range any farther north than Pigeon
Point in San Mateo County because the area is thick with great white sharks.
When the otters try to swim through what marine biologists call “the
gauntlet,” they are regularly bitten and often don’t survive.
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