Gilmore SEA OTTER 1931 Sept. 8 Unalaska, Unalaska Is., Alaska The following data was gathered from Henry Swanson, skipper of the "Kanaga Native". Sea otters are common from Atka Is., westward and may be seen almost any time feeding in the kelp beds or resting on the rocks of the beach. He has watched them diving & feeding on "Sea eggs", a globular, spiny Echomoderna ata, in the kelp areas a little ways off shore. They bring the sea egg to the surface in their mouth & there, holding it in their front flippers, they crack the thin calcareous shell and devour the contents. While hunting seal off the rocky beaches, he has noticed sea otter sunning or resting themselves on the rocks. Every year several are found dead on the beach and their skins turned over to the govt., who sells them at the best price they will bring, returning the money to the original finder. Tradition has it that several years, a man poached twelve and smuggled the skins out to London where, [illegible]