Assertion: sea otter's number | /r/HasSubevent | conflict
Facets:
value: in some parts of their range
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Because demand for sea otter artifacts is small, the number of animals killed yearly is modest but increasing [currently averaging more than 1,000 per year in Alaska (USFWS, Anchorage, AK, United States)]. Competition between recolonizing sea otters and human fisheries for invertebrates (e.g., clams, crabs, abalone), whose populations expanded in the sea otters’ absence, has led to conflict in some parts of their range (Carswell et al., 2015).