https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species Structured profiles of the species that build, inhabit and depend on kelp forests — from giant kelp to sea otters, urchins to weedy seadragons. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/atlantic-wolffish https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/atlantic-wolffish Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Meet the Atlantic wolffish — a fanged, antifreeze-blooded reef fish that crushes sea urchins and has declined badly from trawl bycatch. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/australasian-gannet https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/australasian-gannet Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Plunging from thirty metres at highway speed, the Australasian gannet runs the baitfish economies of southern kelp coasts. Meet Morus serrator, the takapu. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/australian-fur-seal https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/australian-fur-seal Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A species profile of the Australian fur seal, Bass Strait's biggest pinniped — nearly sealed out of existence, now recovering along the kelp coasts of the south. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/ballan-wrasse https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/ballan-wrasse Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Europe's biggest wrasse rules the kelp rocks: nest-building, sex-changing, shell-crushing — and now conscripted onto salmon farms as a cleanerfish. Full profile. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/banded-morwong https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/banded-morwong Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/basket-star https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/basket-star Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Basket stars unfurl branching arms into cold currents to sieve plankton at night. Meet Gorgonocephalus eucnemis, the kelp coast's living gorgon head. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/bat-ray https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/bat-ray Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The bat ray is a winged, shell-crushing ray of Pacific bays and kelp edges. Biology, the famous feeding pits, and why divers mistake it for something grander. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/bat-star https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/bat-star Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The bat star (Patiria miniata) is the kelp forest's web-fingered clean-up crew — a slow omnivore that turns detritus into reef fertility. Facts, ecology, where to see one. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/big-skate https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/big-skate Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The big skate is the Pacific's largest skate — a 2.4-metre flatfish-eyed predator of the kelp-edge sands, famous for giant mermaid's-purse egg cases with twins inside. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-and-yellow-rockfish https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-and-yellow-rockfish Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The black-and-yellow rockfish holds one crevice for years and defends it with venom-tipped spines — a lesson in how site-attached reef fish live and recover. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-croaker https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-croaker Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The black croaker drums after dark in Southern California's kelp beds. How to identify Cheilotrema saturnum, where to find it, and why it sings. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-eyed-goby https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-eyed-goby Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The blackeye goby's hovering economy: how a 10 cm fish harvests plankton over reef edges, feeds the food web, and tells surveyors what a reef is doing. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-rockfish https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-rockfish Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Black rockfish: the dark, schooling Sebastes of northeast Pacific kelp edges — identification vs blue rockfish, life history, fishery and conservation. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-surfperch https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-surfperch Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The black surfperch (Embiotoca jacksoni) is the thick-lipped, slow-browsing seaperch of California kelp beds — live-bearing, territorial and endlessly photogenic. https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-yellow-rockfish https://nicko170.github.io/tidewright/journal/species/black-yellow-rockfish Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The black-and-yellow rockfish is one of the most boldly patterned fish of California's shallow kelp reefs — dark as kelp shadow, patched with shout-yellow.