Helping build back up the sea otter population does not only benefit the kelp forest ecosystem, it is also economically beneficial. I am not the only person who finds sea otters adorable, so does the ecotourism community. There is a reason that the Sea Otter and Kelp Forest exhibits at Monterey Bay Aquarium are two of the most visited exhibits annually. A recent study done on recovery cost and benefits by a marine biologist, Edward Gregar, predicted that just from ecotourism for sea otters alone, profit has an increase by $42 million per year. In addition to the ecotourism financial boom, Hamdi Issawi wrote in his article Sea otters are back with a worrying vengeance in B.C. “Recovering kelp forests… are projected to offset the loss with benefits such as carbon sequestration, estimated at $2.2 million annually. The seaweeds also invite more diverse marine life, including commercial fin fish, worth nearly $10 billion per year. These include everything from lingcod and rockfish to kelp crabs and smaller invertebrates that feed other parts of the ecosystem.”