“Eating sea urchins is actually a way to help the kelp,” said Lamb, pointing to people who are “diving and collecting urchins to use them for all sorts of things, like food, fertilizer, or ...

Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins. To save kelp forests, scientists try breeding sea stars To save kelp forests ...

Around the same time, a marine heat wave arrived and warmed the water for years, stunting kelp growth and reproduction. Sunflower sea stars — the giants of sea stars, with up to 21 limbs — eat sea ...

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

Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful ...

When kelp forests disappear ... eat a quarter of their body weight in food every day. In addition to sea urchins, they eat crabs, sea snails, clams, mussels, and slow moving fish.

A regenerative fishery and kelp restoration project launched by Norwegian ocean tech company Ava Ocean has received official ...

For the last decade, California’s offshore seafloors have been missing a massive, colorful predator that keeps kelp-munching sea urchins in check. The sunflower sea star is a big starfish ...

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