In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...
Bixby is named after Bixby Estuary along California's Big Sur coast. This location is incredibly significant in the history of southern sea otters. It is the place where the last remaning southern ...
Along with dolphin shows, sea otters were a big draw at the aquariums. At the peak in 1994, more than 120 sea otters were living in aquariums in Japan. However, overhunting for fur depleted the ...