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

So kelp forests, you’re even connected to gray whales ... Miller: Well, what can you or others do right now that you have a pretty good sense will actually help? Hamilton: Yeah, so one of ...

"We see some pretty rapid growth ... They've also been transplanting fully grown kelp from healthy forests in the bay into some barren areas and varying the level of ongoing urchin culling ...

Credit: Jeff Maassen photo A new project is underway to restore kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel by removing sea urchins and selling them to restaurants or turning them into agricultural ...

sea otters consume voracious kelp-eating sea urchins at a high enough rate that kelp forests continue to persist and provide habitat for numerous species. Without sea otters, sea urchins devour ...

Among the asserted losses are a significant loss of giant kelp forest north of Point La Jolla and low numbers of yellowtail and white seabass. And, of course, there are the restrictions on human ...

Now, Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara are teaming up with UC Santa Barbara researchers to remove them. Jenn Caselle is a ...