Pacific Kelp Co. is working with two university researchers to study the benefits of their kelp extract as fertilizer. If it ...

Jon McGee of New England Sea Farms in Guilford said he harvested roughly 10,000 pounds of sugar kelp on his farm last spring, and he expects to grow roughly five times that volume this year.

The divers were with Kelp Ark, a San Pedro-based nonprofit seed bank that preserves and stores genetic material from West Coast kelp species. The Feb. 10 dive was their second since fire and ...