SFR Bremerton Otter Assault! (from Seattle Times)

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River otter pulled child into water at Bremerton Marina, officials say

The mother lifted her child out of the water and the otter continued attacking the family as they left the dock, according to the news release.
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“A river otter pulled a young child into the water at the Bremerton Marina on Thursday morning as the child was walking down the dock with their mother, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials said in a news release.

The child was dragged underwater and resurfaced after a few moments, officials said. The mother lifted her child out of the water and the otter continued attacking the family as they left the dock, according to the news release.

The child had scratches and bites to the top of their head, face and legs and was taken to a Silverdale hospital, department officials said…”

This poor kid is probably going to become a trapper, and I wouldn’t blame them.
 
Had a family of river otters up next to my kayak hissing at me....but they left me alone when I quickly moved to the other end of the lake.

Same lake, next summer, when I came back to my beached kayak a big otter jumped out of the cockpit.....no doubt searching for a non-existent stringer of trout.

I figure this lake, which always has several big beaver lodges, dependably remains at full pool even in late summer and so boggy at shoreline it's unfishable except from some sort of watercraft (horrible boat launch access), is prime otter habitat because it flows into a very large river system with a healthy otter population.

Not particularly good fishing, but it's great for watching wildlife.
 
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They can be destructive and dirty too. Dad had his boat out moored in front of his house, otters got in there broke a fly rod and pooped all over the place. I guess all in the act of being playful, eh?
 
I'll chime in here. Sea Otters are vastly different from River Otters. Sea Otters are destructive creatures that are doing immense harm to eco systems around the globe. Now River Otters are different. Just the other day I watched a River Otter climb up a ladder, onto the docks, in broad daylight, and climb onto a 24 Boson Whaler, snoop around and leave with something in it's mouth. The family had only left their boat for a few minutes. I felt compelled to tell them of the heist, they were probably missing a sandwich.
 
Jim in Anacortes said:
Sea Otters are destructive creatures that are doing immense harm to eco systems around the globe..
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This statement is complete and utter Horseshit.

news.ucsb.edu

Sea otters stabilize salt marsh banks as they recolonize a Californian estuary

Sea otters are stabilizing salt marshes as they recolonize their former territory in Monterey Bay. The voracious cuties chow down on the crabs that burrow into the marshes' soft banks.
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Only within the context of fully prosecuted commercial dive and trap fisheries are sea otters "doing any harm", and quite frankly, the "stuck in the 1950's" fisheries management of the Eastern Pacific hasn't done enough to set aside biomass for ecologic need, including otters.
 
G Smolt I value your input, but I stand by my words. Monterey bay is a perfect example of the destruction that these animals are capable of.. Fisheries in Alaska are now seeing widespread destruction. Even the Native Americans, centuries ago, saw the necessity to limit their numbers. They are cute, they do bring in tourist, but for every other living thing on the reef they are simply brutally destructive. That is the truth...Millions of dollars have been spent to keep that truth hidden...I give it to all readers free of charge. Underwater footage of a reef teaming with life, compared to just months after Otters were introduced at that reef showing nothing but death and barren reef...... This I have personally witnessed. This is why there are no Otters (yet) in Southern California, this is why the truth is being hidden with immense effort.
 
Sea Otters have the ability to turn a perfectly balanced ecosystem on a reef into a "parking lot" in a very short time. Lobsters, gone, endangered abalone, gone, Pismo clams, gone, muscles gone, Urchins, gone then they will go for the fin fish..also gone. This is what a Sea Otter was designed to do...eat everything. They are not "top predators" that help the kelp bed.....they eat everything...Period.
 
A sport diver in Southern California is busted taking one Abalone....Huge fines, criminal record and possibly loses his fishing license. For good reason. A Sea Otter at that same location eats all the Abalone (big and small) that he wants, every day all day, 24/7/365. Does this make sense? Yes it does, when you factor in the millions and millions of dollars that are involved in the "Sea Otter" scam. There is big money in "saving the Sea Otters" the well being and health of the reef is simply not relevant.
 
So when the sun stars are wiped out by some mysterious disease and the urchin population explodes and wipes out the kelp beds, I think then the value of sea otters becomes obvious. Every creature has its place, and man has continually showed that he knows less than he thinks he does about ecosystems and the like.
 
A very well informed response nwbobber. But it is far more complicated than that. I know of what I speak. The starfish wasting disease was the worst marine epidemic in history, stretching from Alaska to Mexico. The Purple Urchins took over vast areas of Northern California, but the Red Urchins seemed to be hit by the same disease and their populations were decimated. The Green Urchins seemed to be unaffected. But the Otters have no interest in eating the Purple urchins that are in barrens with little or no roe. Any Sea Otter population will quickly eat anything other than these empty Purple Urchins such as any remaining abalone and any other shellfish until they are all gone. A parking lot.... that is what Sea Otters leave when they are done. Millions of dollars spent over decades have been used to hide this truth from Americans,,,I am just one voice that knows the truth.
 
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