Sea Otters Destruct Green Crabs
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•Green crabs have invaded habitats. Sea otters might be the solution.
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Ecologist Rikke Jeppesen studied green crabs in California 's Elkhorn Slough in the early 2000s .
Otters have led to green crabs’ demise by eating up to 120,000 of the invasive species as a group per year.
The researchers say their findings show the importance of protecting otters and other native predators.
There are about 3,000 southern sea otters in California , down from the tens of thousands that once ranged down to Mexico .
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has considered an otter reintroduction plan on the Pacific Coast .
The federal agency said it would cost between $26 million and $43 million over 13 years .
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