Passengers on the Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced could well ... kelp and shellfish that exists in the healthy habitats." Sea otters are the smallest of the marine mammals, but their habits ...

So in 2000, the Center petitioned the Service to protect otters in southwest Alaska as a “distinct population segment ... resulted in a settlement forcing the designation of critical habitat, ...

For years, the regulations about who could hunt sea otters in Alaska were confusing. Many thought hunters must be at least ...

After being rescued by the Alaska SeaLife Center ... before he can meet his peers and experience his new habitat at Shedd. Stranded sea otter pups require constant care: Aquarium staff feeds ...

(Michael Cameron/NOAA Fisheries Service via AP, file) (CN) — The State of Alaska sued to reverse the National Marine Fisheries Service’s designation of critical habitat for threatened ringed and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A judge in Alaska has set aside a federal agency’s action designating an area the size of Texas as critical habitat for two species of threatened Arctic Alaska seals.