Sea urchins are kelp’s main predators and love to chomp on kelp’s leaflike ... Malnourished, their reproductive organs stop developing, which is the only part of the urchin that predators eat. No ...
Researchers estimate southern sea otters eat up to 120,000 European green crabs per year at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve ...
Uni, or sea urchin, is a precious culinary delicacy at sushi restaurants and beyond. However, its population overgrowth is ...
The final week of the year will bring low tides to San Diego's coastline, giving tide poolers one more chance this month to ...
Sea otters are a rare species as humans excessively hunted them in the 18th and 19th Century. They were mainly hunted for ...
An invasive species had taken over ecosystems across the West Coast and was threatening to dominate another in Monterey ...
Lacking natural predators and able to survive long after food sources are diminished, purple sea urchins are devastating kelp ...
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 ...
Tasmanian Commercial Dive Association divers seeding kelp as part of the IMAS-led whole-of-reef-ecosystem project. Picture: Dr Scott Ling, IMAS Assoc Prof Ling Tasmanian sea urchin harvesters ...
Commercial sea urchin and lobster fishers and the Tasmanian ... to accelerate the rebuilding of local populations of urchin-eating lobsters. Recreational diver training in giant kelp restoration ...