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  Wildlife officials attempt safe capture of unusually aggressive sea otter

  7/17/2023

  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) are responding to reports of a 5-year-old female southern sea otter exhibiting concerning and unusual behaviors

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  Two recent years of unusually high ocean temperatures

  4/10/2023

  Larvae produced by black rockfish, a linchpin of the West Coast commercial fishing industry for the past eight decades, fared better during two recent years of unusually high ocean temperatures than had been feared, new research by Oregon State University shows.

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  West Coast is shifting from several years of unusually warm conditions

  3/22/2019

  The ocean off the West Coast is shifting from several years of unusually warm conditions, toward a cooler and more productive regime that may boost salmon returns and populations of other ocean predators, according to a new NOAA Fisheries report.