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Green sea turtles, once nearly wiped out, have been showing up in increasing numbers in recent decades in places like the San Gabriel River.If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach released its first-ever report card this week detailing the health of 30 species of SoCal marine life.
Species on the decline — 12 of them — include the harbor seal and several species of sea stars and abalone.Giant sea bass, which live about as long as humans, were nearly fished to extinction decades ago. But the species has been on a slow but steady path to recovery, thanks to regulations protecting the giants from fishing and recovery programs. Fun fact: The Aquarium of the Pacific was the first aquarium to successfully breed and raise the fish in captivity and release them into the wild.
The Aquarium of the Pacific has been breeding abalone for several decades. Since 2019, they’ve released 16,000 of the critters back into coastal waters, said Nate Jaros, vice president of animal care at the aquarium.“ When you're releasing abalone, they kind of have to go through a gauntlet of predators — octopus, sheephead, lobsters are all abalone predators. So when you put small abalone out, they're vulnerable,” Jaros said.
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