Show canadian museum gets deep sea otters pelt it was the deep sea otter that first 8 spurred purred the tide of immigration from russia eastward ta it the behring sea and the alaskan waters and for many years the sea was the richest article of commerce known to the spanish british and other ocean adventurers before whales and seals became the chief objective of the north pacific hunter frenzied hunting hun tig however soon brought about depletion of the sea otters in recent years the sea otter has been considered virtually extinct but recently tin an indian seal hunter ott off the west coast of vancouver island encountered a great dun color sea animal more than six feet long lone the hair was of remarkably silky texture ne ile shot it and showed it to an official cill of the game conservation board who promptly confiscated the ali skin announcing noun cing that it was that of a sea otter the first to be killed la in many years the pelt valued at more than 2000 was stuffed and mounted and placed in the provincial museum at victoria |