27 articles
The banded morwong is a slow-growing, site-loyal grazer of Tasmania's kelp reefs — a fish that can live for generations and taught fisheries a hard lesson.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The blacklip abalone is southern Australia's largest abalone — a kelp-fed reef grazer that supports one of the world's most valuable wild shellfish fisheries.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A coastal atlas guide to Browns Bank, the Scotian Shelf plateau where kelp grows far offshore, urchins regrew and crashed, and science has watched for fifty years.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
A restored kelp forest delivers fish, jobs, cleaner water and coastal protection alongside carbon. Here's how those co-benefits are measured and valued.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Eighteen months after Lofoten's polar-night seeding, the sugar kelp belt met its first harvest. Field notes from the week the fleet got paid in kelp.
Jack Callum ·
Meet the grass rockfish (Sebastes rastrelliger): a shallow-water ambush predator that barely leaves home — and pays for that loyalty when the pressure comes.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Haliotis fulgens, the green abalone, is a kelp-trapping herbivore of Baja and southern California. Shell, life cycle, fishery history and recovery.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A full catalogue of kelp forest ecosystem services — fisheries, coastal protection, carbon, water quality, culture — and an honest look at valuation's limits.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Pink abalone built Baja California's most storied shellfish fishery, then nearly vanished with the kelp. Inside the cooperative-led fight to bring them back.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The red turban snail (Chlorostoma funebralis) grazes the kelp forest's turf night and day — and when its numbers swing, whole reefs can tilt. A species profile.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
A seaweed farm permit is paper; social licence is people. How to consult fishing communities, councils and neighbours before — and long after — your lines go in.
Naomi Reyes ·
Yelloweye rockfish can live more than a century on a single reef. Identification, the barotrauma problem, and the rules helping this red giant recover.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Dungeness crab species profile: the life cycle from drifting larva to fishing pot, sand-flat and kelp-edge habitat, moulting growth and fishery stewardship.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The lingcod is not a cod at all — a big-headed, voracious ambush predator of Pacific kelp reefs, famous for blue-green flesh and fiercely guarded nests.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
MPAs, marine reserves, no-take zones explained — how protection levels differ, what the evidence shows, and what MPAs can and can't do for kelp forests.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Pāua, New Zealand's iridescent abalone, is a taonga species, a prized kaimoana and a carefully managed fishery. Its biology and cultural story.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The wavy turban snail is the big, armoured grazer of southern California kelp forests — a hand-sized shell with a built-in door and a small fishery of its own.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Cook Inlet is Alaska's great tidal estuary — bore tides, glacial silt, belugas and salmon, with rich cold-water kelp beds in its clear pockets. A Coastal Atlas guide.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Marine reserve spillover explained: how protected waters export adult fish and larvae to fishing grounds, what the evidence shows and when benefits appear.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
California market squid: the boom-and-bust fishery that whitens the seafloor with egg mops and feeds half the coastal food web.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Giant red sea cucumbers vacuum the kelp forest floor, recycle nutrients and buffer reef chemistry — and global fisheries show what happens when they're gone.
Naomi Reyes ·
The red sea urchin can live a century, grows to dinner-plate size, and feeds the uni trade. Meet the kelp forest's most venerable grazer — and its fishery.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The starry flounder is the North Pacific's most river-loving flatfish, banded in orange and black. How to identify it, where it hunts, and why estuaries need it.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The giant sea bass is a 250-kilo shadows-and-kelp predator that fishermen nearly erased. Learn its biology, the crash and the slow comeback now unfolding.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Fisheries managers turn stock science and politics into catch rules that keep both fish and fishers afloat. The path in, the skills, the day-to-day.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Fisheries observers collect the data that quotas, closures and stock science stand on. What the job involves, how to get in, and who it suits.
Jack Callum ·
The striped trumpeter is Tasmania's celebrated hand-line fish — a kelp-reef juvenile, a deep-reef adult, and a lesson in how long-lived fish repay patience.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·