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10-10-2013, 11:02 PM | #16 |
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Re: The Truth About Sea Otter Expansion
You can thank the otters for the large size of the eastern pacific abalone. The evolution of the large size of abalone is an effect of the predation of the otters. Chumash Indian middens show boom and bust cycles of shellfish and otter carcasses. These middens are well known and studied from the Channel Islands. Southern California kelp forest ecology is driven from the lower trophic levels up and not top down like most ecosystems.
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10-10-2013, 11:03 PM | #17 |
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And I want one of those otter jackets!
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10-10-2013, 11:53 PM | #18 | |
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Back in the 70s and 80s guys regularly pulled lobster from holes up in SLO. Now they are extremely rare and, like our abalone, back in holes too far for an otter to reach into. |
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10-11-2013, 02:12 AM | #20 | |
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10-11-2013, 02:28 AM | #21 | |
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Humans are the otter's natural predator. White sharks bite plenty of them but I don't think they like the fluff, and otters have no tasty blubber layer. I have read that a pod of orkas in Alaska has started to feed on the otters up there. |
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10-11-2013, 10:19 AM | #22 | |
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10-11-2013, 10:23 AM | #23 |
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So what can be done? What do you do if you see an otter in Southern California when diving?
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10-11-2013, 10:47 AM | #24 | |
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Shortly I should have an update on the status of the suit. More to come................ |
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10-11-2013, 11:41 AM | #25 | |
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When you look at that video the warden captain claims that scouts go out. These 'scouts' are young males who are not large enough to have their own territory because they cannot compete with larger male and female otters. These otters are the ones expanding the population range. Another thing to look at critically of that video in relation to the cojo pipeline is that there is zero account for withering foot and the mid 1990s El Nino that was extremely damaging to the santa barbara county kelp and algae populations. Huge amounts of reef forming worms that created substrate for macrocystis beds were wiped out.
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The sea wolverines are nothing to mess with. In Monterey the Ab are all far back in crevasses. They can easily be found, but the small ones are no match for an otter and you can find 3 inch shells all over. It looks like Mendo at the end of Ab season, only 6 inch abs, and only wedged back in the deepest holes stacked on top of each other to avoid whatever is trying to eat them.
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10-11-2013, 12:48 PM | #28 | |
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10-11-2013, 01:49 PM | #29 |
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What upsets me is that my bio professor last semester was vomiting diarrhea about how urchins are otters primary food, and to rebuild kelp forests, we need the otters to eat the urchins, which kill off the kelp. What a load of garbage that's being taught to society.
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10-11-2013, 04:48 PM | #30 |
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Oh man it would be fun to pick them off with a 22 if they opened up a season for them below point conception. I know they wont thought because they're too cuddly and cute for the tree huggers to give up, regardless of common sense.
I would love some otter uggs.
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