The Oregon Coast Community College Foundation is pleased to announce the return of the Williams Lecture Series. Briefly ...

Sea otters have been missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, and local non-profit Elakha Alliance is trying to ...

Open the Youtube video Sea otters are the smallest marine mammals, but they have some incredible adaptations to thrive in the ocean. Unlike seals and whales, they don’t have a thick layer of blubber ...

Draft legislation would designate bull kelp in the Puget Sound as Washington’s official marine state forest.

Two years late and counting, that’s how long it’s been since an all-important farm bill expired and congress, while extending it, has not found a permanent solution.

Local tribes and nonprofits have received a grant to lead the planning effort to bring back the furry mammals, which have ...

Why do sea otters hold hands? As you’ll see in this video, it is actually a rather clever sea otter survival strategy!

Last summer, the Vancouver Aquarium started offering sea otter encounters, and the Straight had the chance to see what it was like to interact a little more closely with the aquarium’s fluffiest ...

The push to reintroduce southern sea otters to greater sections of the California and Oregon coast is getting a big boost from a $1.56 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, ...

Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful iridescent shell but sought for its meat, is a fishery worth more than 150 million ...

“Because otters help maintain kelp ecosystems by holding urchins in check, any statewide recovery of otters that can be achieved may facilitate statewide recovery of kelp ecosystems.” Though ...