Bull kelp provides food and shelter for salmon, Southern Resident orcas, sunflower stars, pinto abalone, rockfish, harbor ...

Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful ...

If there aren’t enough sea otters to keep the sea urchins in check, they will multiply and munch on the ocean’s kelp forests. Kelp is critical for the ocean ecosystem and provides food and ...

The push to reintroduce southern sea otters to greater sections of the California and Oregon coast is getting a big boost from a $1.56 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, ...

A regenerative fishery and kelp restoration project launched by Norwegian ocean tech company Ava Ocean has received official ...

In their absence, the sea urchin population proliferated. Sea urchins eat kelp, and the explosion in their population greatly diminished kelp forests, which provide critical habitat and nutrition for ...

After centuries of overhunting by fur traders, sea otters have largely disappeared from the Oregon and Northern California coasts. But the Siletz Tribe is trying to bring them back with the help of a ...

That their return would curb purple urchin populations and allow ... sunflower stars — and potentially sea otters — could broadly restore kelp forests. There’s little purple urchins can ...

Loading YouTube content The marine scientist from environmental nonprofit The Nature Conservancy explains that a dramatic rise in sea urchin numbers has decimated the golden kelp forests that ...

more than 95% of Northern California’s bull kelp forests have been destroyed — a result of numerous ongoing challenges, including rising ocean temperatures and an explosion in the sea urchin ...