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Sea Otter. The sea otter is the largest member of the weasel family and the smallest marine mammal. Ninety percent of the worldâs sea otters live in coastal Alaska. The Marine Mammal Protection Act protects sea otters. It prohibits commercial harvest of sea otters, and allows Alaska natives to hunt sea otters for subsistence and creation of handicrafts. Sea otters were hunted nearly to extinction in the late 1700s and 1800s through commercial harvest for their luxurious furs. Once commercial harvest ceased, sea otter numbers rebounded and they re-colonized much of their former range. Sea otter numbers have declined in southwestern Alaska over the past 20 years.
Sea otters are one of the largest otter species. Rarely coming ashore, sea otters spend most of their time in the kelp forests off the west coast of America, Alaska and Russia.To keep warm they have the densest fur of all mammals but no insulating body fat.ea otters are also often found in kelp forests because food is abundant and they use the kelp as protection from predators. While sea otters are not social animals, they are often seen in large groups called 'rafts'.