Wildlife officials: Abandon Southern California sea otter rules
Friday, August 19, 2011 - 00:30
in Biology & Nature
Creating a colony on San Nicolas Island and, to appease fishing groups, moving all other Southland sea otters to the Central Coast hasn't helped the threatened species, federal officials say.After 24 years of barring sea otters from most Southern California waters and trying to establish a colony for the animals on San Nicolas Island, federal wildlife officials say the effort should be abandoned because it failed to help the threatened species recover.