The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has opened a public comment period on a proposal to create a 31-acre kelp farm in ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they ...

Jim Estes, a retired USGS scientist and the paper's co-author, spent his career researching sea otters and how their presence along rocky shorelines shaped kelp forests. While working on remote ...

Alaska currently only allows aquaculture for shellfish and kelp. Dunleavy said House Bill 111 would allow farmers to breed and develop finfish stocks. The bill would not allow salmon farming.

After sea star wasting disease wiped out more than 90 percent of the ocean's wild sunflower sea star population, divers brave the cold Alaskan waters to find traces of the remaining population.

Similarly, kelp forests in Alaska are home to numerous species of fish and invertebrates, but these giant kelps, which are the dominant and foundation species of kelp forest communities ...

and other local treats that might even include pickled kelp based on traditional indigenous recipes. Foodies will love an ...