12 articles
Tidewright's first Humboldt Coast season: working alongside local diver unions, learning huiro protocols, and finding out what the Chilean coast teaches back.
Jack Callum ·
The Chilean kelp crab — jaiba marmola — is a spider-crab grazer of great kelp beds and the centre of a diver-run artisanal fishery. A species and livelihood profile.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Lessonia trabeculata, the huiro, builds Chile's great subtidal kelp forests and feeds a global alginate industry. Biology, fishery, ecology and El Niño risk.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Inside Chile's Patagonian channels, the Andes go under the sea — and sheltered waters grow the most extensive giant kelp forests in South America, beside a salmon boom.
Jack Callum ·
Chiloé's inland sea holds giant kelp, cochayuyo coasts, blue whales and one of the world's great salmon industries. A guide to Chile's complicated island.
Naomi Reyes ·
Chile's Chonos Archipelago is a drowned maze of rainforest islands, kelp channels, mussel rafts and blue-whale water — a coastal atlas guide to Aysén's inland sea.
Tom Okafor ·
Cochayuyo is Chile's great edible bull kelp — a surf-loving brown alga, a market staple and an ocean-going raft. Biology, culture, harvest and rafting ecology.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A region guide to Chile's Bay of Concepción — Humboldt Current kelp beds, cochayuyo harvest, artisanal fishing caletas, and where nature persists beside industry.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A Tidewright field note from Chile's Coquimbo coast: twelve days of sonar, CTD casts and dive transects to write the first baseline for our newest kelp program.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Fourteen days, one weather window and a quota the reef wrote first — field notes from the harvest fortnight that funds a season on the Humboldt coast.
Jack Callum ·
The Humboldt penguin breeds in guano caves on the desert coast of Chile and Peru, and fishes in one of the richest — and most changeable — seas on Earth.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Explore Chile's Humboldt Current coast: relentless upwelling, Lessonia and giant kelp beds, the cochayuyo harvest tradition, and the pressures reshaping 4,000 km of reef.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·