“We’re having success,” said Brent Hughes, a professor of biology at Sonoma State University who is restoring kelp in Sonoma, Mendocino and Marin counties. “We’re growing kelp out in the ...

The guide aims to advance the state’s budding mariculture industry at a time when global demand for kelp products is on the rise.

Ongoing beach and bluff closures encourage more and more marine mammals to congregate in north La Jolla and harm the delicate ...

But for a new crop of farmers growing sugar kelp in the waters of the Long Island Sound, planting season is just wrapping up and the seeds are germinating under the surface. By mid-spring ...

Inside, an experiment is playing out that gives a badly-needed boost to Northern California’s kelp forests — underwater cathedrals of green and gold that nearly vanished from the north coast a ...

The new pilot project will sell the problematic purples to restaurants or turn them into agricultural products.

15, 2024. Early on a freezing Sunday morning in December, Krista Rosen and Inga Potter of Cold Current Kelp venture out in a tiny vessel to plant new sugar kelp seedlings. Along for the ride are ...

A new batch of sugar kelp is growing, suspended on hemp lines hanging a few feet below the surface of the water along Oyster Bay Harbor at Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Park. As it grows over the ...