Re: [GSAS-Member] Otters, was Deterring raccoons,

[Steev Ward <steevward@yahoo.com>]

In West Seattle they have a problem with otters, anywhere that they can find a 
creek to
follow uphill. They come upstream and eat the spawning salmon in the fall, and 
if they
get into someone's koi pond they eat them ALL. People say these things are WAY 
bigger
than a Raccoon and they are a lot better at catching fish.


Steev


--- Betty Goetz <haika@drizzle.com> wrote:

> I wonder if those were river otters? I'd imagine river otters are more
> agile than sea otters. I just know that my coworkers said they saw the
> raccoons....but that's all second-hand information. I've seen tons of
> river otters in Puget Sound but sea otters aren't very common. I know they
> have been reintroduced along the coast on the Olympic Peninsula and one of
> my old mammalogy buddies from Humboldt State was one of the folks
> monitering the reintroduced population. But maybe the population has
> exploded since then....gosh, I'll have to check onto that! Mink are also
> relatively common....and pretty agile.
> 
> Betty Goetz - with the National Marine Mammal Lab right down the
> hallway...time to talk mammals again
> 
> > I wonder if they where really raccoons or sea otters? I was at the
> > marina in Port Townsend once, We had caught a 60 pound  Halibut and
> > the bones and what not was out in the cockpit in a garbage bag. Just
> > as we where heading to sleep a couple sea otters came on board and
> > drug off the bag. I managed to get the bag out of the water with the
> > main part of the skeleton and put it in a bucket in a hold to dump out
> > in the deeper water the next day. The otters came back and where quite
> > unhappy.... But they did get a share anyway.
> > Cute buggers - I like them better than raccoons even though they can
> > get onboard and mess up things a lot.
> >
> > Linda


      
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