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Morro Bay, California, USA
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Getting Cleaned Up by Rick Derevan
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Elegant Tern, Morro Bay, California.
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The Rock to Steady Your Way - sanddollar photography 2/16/23
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Rise and shine from Morro Bay, California USA 🇺🇸
📸 Ryan Ditch @ryanditchphoto
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Ships at rest: dusk. Morro Bay, California. 5 Jan 2017.
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Sea Otter Heaven, Morro Bay (No. 6)
Although the southern sea otter's range has continuously expanded from the remnant population of about 50 individuals in Big Sur since protection in 1911, from 2007 to 2010, the otter population and its range contracted and since 2010 has made little progress. As of spring 2010, the northern boundary had moved from about Tunitas Creek to a point 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southeast of Pigeon Point, and the southern boundary has moved along the Gaviota Coast from approximately Coal Oil Point to Gaviota State Park. A toxin called microcystin, produced by a type of cyanobacteria (Microcystis), seems to be concentrated in the shellfish the otters eat, poisoning them. Cyanobacteria are found in stagnant water enriched with nitrogen and phosphorus from septic tank and agricultural fertilizer runoff, and may be flushed into the ocean when streamflows are high in the rainy season. A record number of sea otter carcasses were found on California's coastline in 2010, with increased shark attacks an increasing component of the mortality. Great white sharks do not consume relatively fat-poor sea otters but shark-bitten carcasses have increased from 8% in the 1980s to 15% in the 1990s and to 30% in 2010 and 2011.
Source: Wikipedia
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