"People have studied the importance of kelp forests for habitat and food around the world, but we never knew that providing energy was such a critical function of kelp forests in the Gulf of Maine ...

Fourteen years ago, Goldblatt started the Fish Reef Project, working to restore local native kelp forests. He tells me they were wiped out off the coast of Goleta during a 1983 El Niño.

In my early days, those things were never known. When the herring spawned, you were sure to get what you’re after, herring roe on branches, herring roe on all the kelp and on all the rocks.” ...

Giant Kelp on California Coast Described. ... A Slender Cord Which Has Leaves 30 or 40 Feet in Length -- Used for Fish Lines and Oil Bags. Share full article. March 10, 1895.

While free diving to photograph kelp forests along the California coastline, I’ve viscerally felt the consequences of finiteness as a living being—the fleeting nature of a single breath, the ...

What’s vanishing isn’t just the kelp but the life it shelters—the fish, the otters and more. “It’s an incredibly important and an incredibly vulnerable system,” Rogers-Bennett says.

Kelp forests cover about 25% of the world's temperate coastline, and the paper could serve as something of a bellwether for what's likely to unfold elsewhere in the coming decades, Rasher said.

The fish are raised in an off-shore platform managed by the school’s Center for Sustainable Seafood Systems. The trout is then smoked by the Boston Smoked Fish Co. with a mixture of brown sugar ...

While there’s no simple solution to restore kelp forests, Oregonians who would like to help should know a few rules. Skip to ... Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Marine Reserves Program. By .

Kelp forest decline along southern Maine has led to a shift in food web dynamics, with predatory fish now relying on phytoplankton rather than kelp for energy. Turf algae, despite their abundance ...

Try some UNH-made beer, smoked fish or kelp oil New Hampshire Public Radio | By Todd Bookman Published November 29, 2024 at 1:23 PM EST ...

image: Various fish species, including cunner and the pollock — the two dominant fish species identified in the study — swim off Cashes Ledge through some of the healthy kelp forest that ...