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Clams harvested by Swinomish tribal members are dyed blue so buyers will know they are meant for use as bait, not to eat. The clams were harvested near a sewage outfall on Whidbey Island during the tribe's first bait fishery.
In early November 2018, the Camp Fire swept across the town of Paradise, 80 miles north of Sacramento. Paradise was burned in its entirety, with over 6,000 buildings destroyed and 27,000 people displaced. By November 10, the Camp Fire became the most destructive in the history of California, burning through more than 100,000 acres.
200 miles to the south, the smoke reached the Bay Area on November 9: the ashes of forests, homes, stores, pets, and more than 20 individuals trapped in the fire.
The afternoon of November 10, the shore at Half Moon Bay was covered in an eerie light, barely filtering through the smoke clouds.
CA SEA OTTERS: MONTEREY BAY
•Food & Foraging:
An otter must consume approximately 25% of its bodyweight in prey each day just to stay alive!
•A 75-pound otter can eat up to 1,500 sea urchins a day, or about 25 pounds of seafood (for a 75 pound kid, that would amount to eating 75 quarter pound hamburgers every day!).
•To meet its high energetic and thermoregulation demands, a sea otter’s metabolic rate is 2 to 3 times that of comparatively sized mammals.
•Sea otters consume a wide variety of benthic invertebrates. Prey items include sea urchins, abalone, crabs, mussels, clams, marine snails, marine worms, sea stars, and squid. In total, otters eat at least 50 species of benthic (bottom-dwelling) invertebrates, although individuals tend to specialize on only a few main prey types. Prey specialization and feeding preferences are passed on from mother to pup.
•The strong forelegs paws are used to locate and capture prey.
•Pockets of loose skin under each foreleg are used to store prey it has gathered on the seafloor for the ascent to the surface.
•Rocks are often used as tools to dislodge prey on the sea floor and to break open the hard outer shells of some prey items upon returning to the surface. Floating belly-up in the water, they place rocks on their chests and repeatedly pound hard-shelled prey against them to gain access the meat inside.
•While eating, an otter will roll repeatedly in the water to wash away food scraps from its chest.
•Unlike most other marine mammals, sea otters commonly drink seawater. Although most of the animal’s water needs are met through the consumption of prey, its large kidneys allow it to extract fresh water from seawater. Source: www.seaotters.com
This group of girls worked their way along the whole length of the shore digging out little shellfish.
In early November 2018, the Camp Fire swept across the town of Paradise, 80 miles north of Sacramento. Paradise was burned in its entirety, with over 6,000 buildings destroyed and 27,000 people displaced. By November 10, the Camp Fire became the most destructive in the history of California, burning through more than 100,000 acres.
200 miles to the south, the smoke reached the Bay Area on November 9: the ashes of forests, homes, stores, pets, and more than 20 individuals trapped in the fire.
The afternoon of November 10, the shore at Half Moon Bay was covered in an eerie light, barely filtering through the smoke clouds.
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Recipe from MFK Fisher's book, Consider the Oyster (1941), as quoted from Brown's Country Cook Book (1937).
CA SEA OTTERS: MONTEREY BAY
•Food & Foraging:
An otter must consume approximately 25% of its bodyweight in prey each day just to stay alive!
•A 75-pound otter can eat up to 1,500 sea urchins a day, or about 25 pounds of seafood (for a 75 pound kid, that would amount to eating 75 quarter pound hamburgers every day!).
•To meet its high energetic and thermoregulation demands, a sea otter’s metabolic rate is 2 to 3 times that of comparatively sized mammals.
•Sea otters consume a wide variety of benthic invertebrates. Prey items include sea urchins, abalone, crabs, mussels, clams, marine snails, marine worms, sea stars, and squid. In total, otters eat at least 50 species of benthic (bottom-dwelling) invertebrates, although individuals tend to specialize on only a few main prey types. Prey specialization and feeding preferences are passed on from mother to pup.
•The strong forelegs paws are used to locate and capture prey.
•Pockets of loose skin under each foreleg are used to store prey it has gathered on the seafloor for the ascent to the surface.
•Rocks are often used as tools to dislodge prey on the sea floor and to break open the hard outer shells of some prey items upon returning to the surface. Floating belly-up in the water, they place rocks on their chests and repeatedly pound hard-shelled prey against them to gain access the meat inside.
•While eating, an otter will roll repeatedly in the water to wash away food scraps from its chest.
•Unlike most other marine mammals, sea otters commonly drink seawater. Although most of the animal’s water needs are met through the consumption of prey, its large kidneys allow it to extract fresh water from seawater. Source: www.seaotters.com