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The disappearance of the sardines taught us a lesson that should be used with care.”We did investigate Monterey Cannery Company, sea otters, and Big Sur which we learned so much about them.
-Cannery Row
In the 1920s, the sardines made Cannery Row famous and people came here from all over such as China, Japan, Portugal, and Mexico to work there and on fishing boats too. They brought the methods and technologies of fishing that changed the sardine industry. In the 1930s, many huge boats brought the sardines and fishermen to get tons of sardines more than people wanted to eat. The sardines started to crush in the canneries into fertilizer and feed the cows and chickens. A boiler operator worked about 16 hours per day and people who work in the sardines for 8 hours per day. About in the 1945, fishermen were collecting about 250,000 tons of sardines a year. 
The canneries wanted to expand for the process even wanted more sardines. In 1946, the sardines catch dropped every year until 1960 which all the canneries had closed because the sardines are going to be extinct. It made people change the social, wars, and markets for sardines which grew then later on, crashed.Now, this place is famous for a marine sanctuary which is the nation’s largest and an aquarium. The old Hovden Cannery was running during that time and it was a “heart” that keeps running. Now, it was a “heart” for an aquarium that promised to conserve the oceans. But Cannery Row came back to life because the sardines were coming back but there were limits to catch the sardines.
The differences of freshwater and ocean sea otters:
- Freshwater live on land and in water. Ocean otters live mostly at sea.
- Freshwater are born on land. Ocean otters are born in the water.
- Ocean otter paws are bigger than freshwater because sea otter need paws to swim in the sea.
- Freshwater are 10-40 lbs and ocean are 40-70 lbs.
- Freshwater lives worldwide. Ocean lives Japan’s northern island and central coast of California.
Interesting facts:
- Sea otters grow up to about four feet long. Females weigh around 44 pounds and males weigh around 64 pounds.
- Sea otters love to rub themselves because they are grooming its fur. Grooming keeps lush fur clean and traps insulating air bubbles to stay warm.
- Sea otters need the protection from the chilly ocean waters and sea otters wrapped in the world’s densest fur like a comfy double-layer coat.
- The fur is made up of more than a million hairs per square inch.
- Sea otters can hold their breath for up to 5 minutes when they are only diving but they usually hold their breath in only 30 seconds.
- Sea otters feel the movements under the sea through their long whiskers and it helps them to sense the moving prey.
- When a sea otter needs to crack open a crab, a stone was the tool to open a crab.
- Sea otters in the bay had eaten more than fifty kinds of invertebrates.
- A sea otter burns calories at almost eight times the rate as you do. Otter have the fast metabolism to burn faster than we do.
In the conclusion, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has the Sea Otter Research and Conservation team and they treat about 30 stranded sea otters each year. The more, they learn about otter behavior, biology and health, better they can protect them.The government of California owned the Big Sur and also owned the Monterey Bay Aquarium too. The Big Sur used the conservation places for the hiking and camping.
We learned a lot about the cannery and sea otters.
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