The Ocean Animal Response and Research Alliance (OARRA) was formed in 2020 to further the understanding of the marine environment and nearshore habitat, its uses, and the threat to its overall health and its inhabitants. OARRA’s consistent monitoring and surveying of the living marine animals and responding to floating and stranded marine animal mortalities, with data collection, and research, the linkage between the cause of death of marine mammals and sea turtles and the ever-changing hazards presented to them through the expanding human utilization of the nearshore marine environment of LA county and beyond will become clearer.

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