Authorities weigh options as surfboard-hopping sea otter gives them the slip
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is overseeing the capture plan, said in a statement Wednesday that “capture may take days or weeks given logistical considerations, the sea otter’s behavior, and shifting environmental conditions, such as water clarity.”
The southern sea otter, a beagle-sized creature that dines on crab and sea urchins, once was hunted to near extinction for its luxuriously thick fur. The surviving population of a few dozen animals that eluded hunters off the rugged Big Sur coast has rebounded since the 1970s to about 3,000, thanks to protection under the Endangered Species Act and Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Aquarium staff and wildlife officials released the young Otter 841 — her ID tag number — to the ocean in 2020 as soon as she was weaned. But after she also began approaching kayakers and surfers last fall, they began a “hazing” program of trying to scare her away from people. That seemed to work — until recently.
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