If you’ve ever wondered how Southern California’s native marine species are faring, but weren’t quite sure how to find out — Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific has a new resource to help. The ...

The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach released its first-ever report card this week detailing the health of 30 species of ...

After centuries of overhunting by fur traders, sea otters have largely disappeared from the Oregon and Northern California ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service last year published an assessment finding that sea otter reintroduction to the Pacific Coast is biologically, socioeconomically and legally feasible. North America’s ...

In July, 1911, the United States, Japan, Russia and Great Britain entered into a treaty "for the protection of fur seals and sea otters in the North Pacific, by outlawing the killing of fur seals ...

Sea otter numbers in the northern Pacific Ocean are thought to have ranged from around 150,000 to 300,000 up until the 18th century. But overhunting for their pelts brought the number down to ...

The sea otter is one of 13 species of otter and is a member of the weasel family. It can be found on the Pacific coasts of North America and Asia. Sea otters spend most of their lives in the water ...

Sea otters were once common around the North Pacific but were eradicated from southeast Alaska by about A.D. 1830 due to the commercial fur trade. In the 1960s, sea otters were re-introduced to ...

A relative of minks and otters, Pacific fishers once roamed forests from British Columbia to Southern California. But due to intense logging and historical trapping, only two naturally occurring ...