Anglers are being reminded that the Northern California recreational red abalone fishery will remain closed for the next five years.
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New satellite images show Northern California's kelp forest almost gone. Here's the reason.
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Scuba divers armed with mesh bags and thick neoprene gloves descend onto a rocky reef littered with spiny purple orbs.
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Urchinomics says it can fight climate change by harvesting invasive urchins and fattening them up for restaurants.
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The warming climate is putting environmental pressure on California forests that have towered over the Golden State for thousands of years.
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How sea otters are radically changing the West Coast ecosystem 50 years after their return to B.C.
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California Sea Grant is pleased to announce six new research projects aimed at restoring California’s kelp forests.
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Food production is the top threat to nature—a regenerative system can change that
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A new sea urchin ranching concept — 'Urchinomics' — could be about to change the way several species' value chains operate, according to the company behind it.
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A new research project is delving into the favoured locations and condition of wild bull kelp in inlets in B.C.’s south coast, east of Campbell River.
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LOS ANGELES – Considered a delicacy around the globe, sea urchins please the palates of the wealthy, showing up on sushi bars and swirled into pasta at fine restaurants. However, these spiny creatures in recent years have plowed through forests of bull kelp along coasts around the world.
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The ocean is undergoing unprecedented changes. What does it mean for marine life, the planet, and us?
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Marine heat waves threaten kelp forests
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Since 2014, the Sonoma and Mendocino coast has lost 90% of its bull kelp forest due to climate change. Interestingly, the solution to the crisis may involve eating purple sea urchin.
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A race against time to save the North Coast's bull kelp forests.
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Desperate times, as the adage goes, call for desperate measures.
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MONTEREY, Calif. -- Kelp forests off the West Coast are being decimated at an alarming rate by marine heat waves linked to climate change, according to seven top marine scientists who just wrote an open letter about it that was published in Science magazine.
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These spiny little animals are in desperate need of population control, and our sushi habits could help.
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Off the Northern California coast, there is a crisis beneath the waves. The kelp forest – seaweed that provided habitat and food for much of life in the ocean – is gone, wiped out by an exploding population of purple sea urchins.
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Off the Northern California coast, there is a crisis beneath the waves. The kelp forest – seaweed that provided habitat and food for much of life in the ocean – is gone, wiped out by an exploding population of purple sea urchins.
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