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Post-Blob, California’s kelp crisis isn’t going away

FORT BRAGG, U.S. — In 2024, I was scuba diving in Northern California’s Casper Cove where the Watermen’s Alliance, a group of ex-abalone sports divers, has been culling purple urchins since 2020. It ...
Marin Independent Journal

Braving sharks, urchins, Bay Area scientists nurture kelp forests

The weathered UC Davis Marine Laboratory looms in thick fog on the edge of the ocean near Bodega Bay. Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a needed boost to Northern California’s kelp ...
WUSA

12-foot skeleton (temporarily) haunts California aquarium’s giant kelp forest

SAN DIEGO — A California aquarium‘s Halloween spirit runs deep – 12 feet under, to be exact. The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography added a fake skeleton from Home Depot to its ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Guest Commentary: Not so fast in blaming pinnipeds for decline of kelp beds

A recent Guest Commentary asserts that the increasing numbers of sea lions and harbor seals (pinnipeds) around La Jolla have upset the delicate balance of the once-thriving La Jolla kelp bed ecosystem ...