sea otter at oregon coast aquarium

LIVE SEA OTTER WEBCAM IN OREGON

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  • Location: Oregon Coast Aquarium, Newport, Oregon, United States
  • Source: www.aquarium.org
  • Info: Live streaming webcam with sea otters at Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport.

More info: Oregon Coast Aquarium is located in Yaquina Bay, near the Pacific Ocean. It is one of Oregon’s top tourist attractions and a vital educational resource for the state, with over 40,000 students visiting the Aquarium each year.

Sea Otters were hunted to extinction in the Oregon wild over a century ago, with the last known individual being killed just off the Newport Beach in 1907.

The decline of the sea otter in Oregon had far-reaching environmental impacts. Otters control the population of sea urchins which in turn feed on the giant kelp forests offshore. Without the otters to maintain this ecological balance, the urchin population managed to destroy many of the underwater forests and the habitat they provided for innumerable species.

Oregon Coast Aquarium has both the Northern sea otter and the southern sea otter. Today, the only indigenous population of southern sea otters resides along the coast of central California. The northern sea otter is found at more northern latitudes, which in North America includes the coast of Alaska and the nearby islands, British Columbia and Washington State.