Year1	Number of Otters Taken	Hunting Party	Sailing Route (simplified)	Nationalities
1786	1,060 in Monterey/ Santa Barbara	Frigate Princesa	San Blas - Monterey - Santa Barbara, San Diego - San Blas	Captain: Spanish; owner: Spanish Government
1806 - 1807	4,819 otters (including 549 pups) – Santa Catalina Island	Ship: O’Cain + 50 baidarkas (kayaks made of sealskin and wood)	Kodiak Island - Hawaii - Santa Catalina Island - Sitka - Hawaii - arrived in Canton in 1808 then returned to Boston	Captain: American Commander of hunters: Russian Hunters: 100 Kodiaks2 Ship Owner: Americans in Boston
1814 - 1815	Total: 1,347 392 in 1814 955 speared around Santa Barbara Channel Islands;	Brig Ilmen, 25 baidarkas	Sitka – Bodega Bay – San Francisco - Santa Barbara - San Luis Obispo - Hawaiian Islands	Captain: American Commander of hunters: Russian Hunters: 50 Aleuts3 & Creoles; Ship owner: Russian - American Company in Sitka
1823 - 1824	1,200 around San Francisco Bay	Russian hunting parties	San Francisco Bay	Russians – during Russian - Mexican contract period
1825	468 near Monterey	Brig, Baikal, 20 baidarkas	Sitka – San Diego - Monterey – San Diego	Captain: American Owner: Russian - American Company in Sitka
1830				Mexican government bans foreign ships from hunting otter in California. Mexicans begin hunting otter.
1833	300 - 400 along California Coast	Brig, Convoy	Honolulu - California Coast - Honolulu	Captain: American Owners: American contra - bandists in Honolulu
1835	71 at Point Conception and San Luis Obispo	2 canoes	Santa Rosa – Point Conception - San Luis Obispo	Hunters: Allen Light and George Nidever and 2 Kanakas4, with Mexican hunting license
1842 - 1843	21 along Monterey and Santa Barbara	Brig, Bolivar Liberator	Honolulu - Monterey - Santa Barbara - San Diego - Mazatlan	Captain: American Owner: Americans in Santa Barbara

1. Adele Ogden, The California Sea Otter Trade 1784 - 1848. University of California Publications in History Vol. 26, (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1941) 112, 161-181.
2. Natives of Kodiak Island South of Alaska
3. Natives of Aleutian islands west of Kodiak Island
4. Hawaiian Islanders