SFR Bremerton Otter Assault! (from Seattle Times)

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So to recap, before European exploration Native Americans kept the otter population under control. For 20,000 years they fought the otter along the front of the ice sheet, allowing an incredible biodiversity to flourish. They continually pushed along a barren parking lot coastline for reasons other than finding ample food along it, for the otters had cleared it out. Just a parking lot. For cars but underwater if you can imagine a parking lot underwater that's what we had here.

The natives chased the loitering lot rats away and created this intertidal mecca that you cant park cars in at all, even underwater.

Then the awesome Russian trappers came and saw how hard the natives were working to unlot the lots for cars and how few otters were around so they stayed for 100 years trapping otters until they were filthy rich on the handful of otters the natives allowed to exist. They nearly got every last one to them and that's why the west coast was doing so great at avoiding cars and had increasing kelp beds and booming abundance of unlotted varietals because the otter was nearly extinct.

But we didn't get them all. They were out there, creating their parking lots underneath our oil spills and removing all the kelp forests from our newly armored shoreline that we added mercury and mine tailings and nuclear waste to. I mean the audacity to make a parking lot where we have a perfectly functioning pulp mill is galling to say the least.

And then those "scientists" and "advocates" and "people with facts and numbers" started a whole coverup campaign that actually blamed the pil spills and armored banks and pulp mills and mine tailings and mercury were the problem and that otters had a natural role in the north pacific ecosystem. They have the ridiculous notion that otters actually unparking lot the parking lots for cars that we all know covered the entire north Pacific until the natives bravely fought them off as proven above.


I don't know what you idiots dont understand, I respect your knowledge but you're clearly in the pocket of Big Otter!
 
Did you know that sea otters have “pockets” in their armpits for holding their favorite prey-smashing rock? So rocks are in the pockets of Big Otter. Think about that…!

I also learned that the highway system in the greater Seattle area is infested with sea otters. I5 and 405 are always parking lots when I’m there.
 
Did you know that sea otters have “pockets” in their armpits for holding their favorite prey-smashing rock? So rocks are in the pockets of Big Otter. Think about that…!

I also learned that the highway system in the greater Seattle area is infested with sea otters. I5 and 405 are always parking lots when I’m there.
Parking Lots, Rocks and Lies: The Truth Big Otter Doesnt Want You to Know!
 
Otter be some more good stuff out there...
 
It seems that some posters find humor in my description of what Sea Otters leave of the reef as a "parking lot". This is not a joke. When a Sea Otter population enters a healthy kelp bed, they kill every single living thing that lives there. That is what they do. Ask any lobster fisherman on the west coast..Do you want Sea Otters reintroduced? They will all say " Hell no". That is not because they are greedy, that is because they know that Sea Otters would destroy the lobster population. Up here on the other end of the continent we have Crab. Lessons learned from California need to be studied before reintroducing Sea Otters to Washington state.
 
Bare in mind that those lobster fisherman have just a tiny voice compared to the giant of "Friends of the Sea Otter". Millions of dollars, lobbyist in D.C. funding from the government, funding from special interest, grants worth millions etc... Those fisherman want to partake in a sustainable fishery....The "eco friendly" Friends of The Sea Otter simply want more funding. The "funding" is the only thing that matters to these entities,,,,the ecosystem is just an after thought. And the cute Sea Otter is simply a vehicle to get that "funding".
 
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...and now...the otter side of the story...
 
It seems that some posters find humor in my description of what Sea Otters leave of the reef as a "parking lot". This is not a joke. When a Sea Otter population enters a healthy kelp bed, they kill every single living thing that lives there. That is what they do. Ask any lobster fisherman on the west coast..Do you want Sea Otters reintroduced? They will all say " Hell no". That is not because they are greedy, that is because they know that Sea Otters would destroy the lobster population. Up here on the other end of the continent we have Crab. Lessons learned from California need to be studied before reintroducing Sea Otters to Washington state.
Like an oak savanna, fire was occasionally utilized to cleanse the area. This allowed for continued health of the savanna.
As mentioned before, and something that escapes you, is that nature has a way of balancing itself…should man quit trying to exploit it and get the hell out of its way.
Think of the sea otter as the fire on the savanna.
 
On rare occasions, people that actually know the truth, sometimes speak out, in an effort to alarm the masses. These rare occasions are often readily dismissed by those that seek comfort in their previously held beliefs, so is the way of humanity.
 
On rare occasions, people that actually know the truth, sometimes speak out, in an effort to alarm the masses. These rare occasions are often readily dismissed by those that seek comfort in their previously held beliefs, so is the way of humanity.
We will never be silenced no matter how much evidence to the contrary exists or how little we have! DOWN WITH OTTERS, UP WITH ABALONE!!
 

“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.
This is the topic posted; about river otters, not sea otters. Sheesh!

So back on-topic; This is the first incident I’ve heard of, where a river otter has attacked a human. However, there have been several cases of river otters attacking dogs on the Canadian side of Juan de Fuca Strait, on beaches around Victoria and Sooke.

This is one of the fastest growing areas in Canada, and many newcomers also have dogs. Human development and recreation are reducing river otter’s undisturbed habitat. River otters need those beach drift log and rock areas for denning. Like most animals, river otters will defend their families and homes from perceived threats of oblivious dogs. I’m sure the river otter that attacked the person in that article was also being defensive.
 
..only I can save them...abalone used to be everywhere, you could just pick them up...lot of people don't know that...just pick them up, great big beautiful abalones. We had the best abalone...abalone like nobodys seen...but they started sending otters in, and they're not sending their best otters, they're sending the worst otters, otters from insane asylum, bad otters, otters that eat, destroy and pillage. They're sending not the cute otters, but bad hombre otters. But we're bringing back abalone, bigger than ever. Going to deport the otters on day one, and then the abalone will start coming back, bigger than ever, better than ever...we're bringing them back, so much abalone... You'll be asking me 'sir, please, no more abalone, we have so much abalone', only I can do it.
We're making abalone great again...
 
This is the topic posted; about river otters, not sea otters. Sheesh!

So back on-topic; This is the first incident I’ve heard of, where a river otter has attacked a human. However, there have been several cases of river otters attacking dogs on the Canadian side of Juan de Fuca Strait, on beaches around Victoria and Sooke.

This is one of the fastest growing areas in Canada, and many newcomers also have dogs. Human development and recreation are reducing river otter’s undisturbed habitat. River otters need those beach drift log and rock areas for denning. Like most animals, river otters will defend their families and homes from perceived threats of oblivious dogs. I’m sure the river otter that attacked the person in that article was also being defensive.
I don’t know how anyone can be sure why an animal behaves how it does. But there are a surprisingly high number of reports of river otter attacks on humans if you search for them.


 

It seems sea otters can play a vital role in decreasing climate change! The Sea Otters prevent under water desertification and thus help prevent the advancement of climate change. Saving these creatures and reintroducing them into waters where they once thrived is a piece of the puzzle to return the balance of nature we messed up!
 
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