25 articles
A working grow-out protocol for winged kelp (Alaria esculenta): hatchery timing, seeding, line management, harvest cuts and the failure modes that sink first crops.
Naomi Reyes ·
Meet the Atlantic wolffish — a fanged, antifreeze-blooded reef fish that crushes sea urchins and has declined badly from trawl bycatch.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Pholis gunnellus lives in kelp holdfasts and under tidepool stones, can cross wet rock between pools, and carries a necklace of eyespots down its back.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Eighteen islands of basalt in one of the world's strongest tidal landscapes, wrapped in kelp. A guide to the Faroes' reefs, races, seabirds and cold-water diving.
Tom Okafor ·
The green sea urchin grazes kelp from Norway to Nova Scotia to Alaska. Its biology, the barrens it builds, the roe fishery it feeds, and how reefs recover.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Greenland may hold some of the world's largest, least-studied kelp forests — clear water, extreme light, expanding with glacier retreat. A guide to the world's kelp frontier.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Iceland sits on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge where warm and Arctic currents collide — and its kelp forests, dive sites and seaweed traditions are as strange and rich as its geology.
Tom Okafor ·
Irish moss is the small red alga of North Atlantic shores that gave the world carrageenan. Profile: ecology, history, harvest and modern uses.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The lumpfish is a lumpy, suction-bellied cold-water fish that farms raise by the million to eat sea lice off salmon — and its roe fishery is older than you think.
Naomi Reyes ·
A low archipelago of red cliffs and dunes in the warming Gulf of St Lawrence, fringed with kelp and eelgrass and ringed by some of Canada's most dynamic coastal water.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
Pollachius virens grows up inside the kelp and hunts beyond it — the dark gadoid whose juveniles fill northeast Atlantic kelp forests every autumn.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Shetland grows some of Britain's finest kelp forests: clear northern water, Eurasian otters and an intact sea culture on the North Atlantic front.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Carcinus maenas is Europe's toughest shore crab — a kelp-edge scavenger at home and one of the world's most consequential marine invaders everywhere else.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Norway turned wild kelp into an industry with trawls and a five-year rotation. The history, the ecosystem debate and what taretrawling taught the world.
Naomi Reyes ·
At 78°N, Svalbard's fjords hold kelp forests in polar light, growing under sea ice and beside glaciers. A guide to the High Arctic's underwater forests — and what's changing.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Necora puber — red eyes, velvety shell, paddle legs and a famous temper — is the reef's feistiest crab from Norway to Iberia, and a quiet kelp-forest worker.
Tom Okafor ·
Inside the Arctic Circle, warm Atlantic water meets polar light cycles and grows some of Europe's richest kelp forests. A guide to Lofoten's underwater jungle.
Tom Okafor ·
Meet the common eider: the northern sea duck that dives for mussels in the kelp shallows, crushes shells whole and gave its down to a centuries-old harvest.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
On the Avalon Peninsula, the Labrador Current delivers icebergs, capelin and cold green water to some of North America's richest — and least visited — kelp forests.
Tom Okafor ·
Dulse is the red seaweed the North Atlantic has snacked on for a thousand years — protein-rich, bacon-savoury when fried, and stranger in its life cycle than you think.
Sofia Andersson ·
Meet the harbour porpoise, the small, shy cetacean of northern coasts: how to identify it, where it lives, what it eats, and why gillnets haunt it.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the lion's mane jellyfish, the cold sea's largest drifter: tentacles longer than a blue whale, a fiery sting, and an unlikely role as fish shelter.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Winged kelp (alaria) is the Atlantic answer to wakame — silky, mild and quick to cook. A prep guide, three recipes and sourcing advice for this cold-water kelp.
Sofia Andersson ·
Boston's harbor went from punchline to one of America's cleanest urban seas, and kelp came back with it. A guide to the islands' underwater forests.
Dr. Lena Fischer ·
A guide to Newfoundland's kelp forests — sugar kelp reefs in ice-cold Atlantic water, urchin barrens, the cod collapse's shadow, and what recovery looks like.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·