Various fish species, including cunner and the pollock — the two dominant fish species identified in the study — swim off Cashes Ledge through some of the healthy kelp forest that remains in ...

Sunlight filters through the kelp canopy, turning the water into stained glass, a masterpiece in motion. Schools of fish dance between the trees and sunbeams—like brushstrokes.

Seaweed and kelp are critical for life on Earth Forests and beds filter excess nutrients and sequester carbon through ...

They would park their kayaks right on the edge of the kelp forest and fish over it. “We never got skunked here. We always caught fish, always,” Calvanese said.

Kelp forests once grew thick here, but have been grazed down by growing populations of sea urchins, in this image from 2020. According to a status report released by the Oregon Kelp Alliance in ...

Kelp forests once grew thick here, but have been grazed down by growing populations of sea urchins, in this image from 2020. According to a status report released by the Oregon Kelp Alliance in ...

Kelp forests are a vital ocean ecosystem, offering food and shelter to fish, and absorbing climate-changing carbon dioxide. One study estimated that kelp forests provide billions of dollars in ...

While free diving to photograph kelp forests along the California coastline, I’ve viscerally felt the consequences of finiteness as a living being—the fleeting nature of a single breath, the ...

image: Various fish species, including cunner and the pollock — the two dominant fish species identified in the study — swim off Cashes Ledge through some of the healthy kelp forest that ...

Kelp forests are some of the most productive ecosystems on Earth. Giant kelp, a kind of algae, can grow up to 18 inches per day, and the trees reach more than ten stories tall at full growth .

Kelp forest decline along southern Maine has led to a shift in food web dynamics, with predatory fish now relying on phytoplankton rather than kelp for energy. Turf algae, despite their abundance ...