Northern Sea Otter (Endyra lutris kenyoni) Population Monitoring Data for Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Alaska (SO_D)
Sea otters (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) are an apex consumer in the North Pacific Ocean and are known
to influence and structure nearshore marine communities. Sea otters were extirpated from southeastern Alaska prior to 1911 due to the commercial fur trade; however, 413 sea otters were reintroduced to southeastern Alaska …