For decades, Maine fisherman Steve Train has made a living catching lobsters and other seafood. But as warming water off the Maine coast makes the future of the fishery more uncertain, he’s also now ...

Although salmon farms help take pressure off wild stocks, the penned fish do produce a lot of waste which is concentrated at one location. A new farm is exploring a solution to that problem, by ...

Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game didn’t always pay much mind to how people used the kelp that washed up on Cook Inlet beaches. “We assumed that it was like somebody going to the ...

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. Fish Reef Project founder Chris Goldblatt has made it a mission to care for the ocean. "The ocean has given me ...

Bioplastics can be made of many different materials, but furniture made of fishing nets? That’s the vision of the Kelp Collection from Interesting Times Gang. They introduced a vision of what’s ...

I recently read an impassioned Sentinel Guest Commentary (April 4) urging support for the creation of new marine protected areas (MPAs) that would ban all fishing in the waters off of Natural Bridges ...

Kelp once formed “underwater rainforests” on the California coast, but these fragile ecosystems have largely disappeared. At a marine lab near the Bay Area, scientists are trying to bring them back.

It was a long June day, and I ran my boat WaveWalker with passengers onboard and my ever-faithful crew member Capt. Tiffany Vague, along the coast to a lush and healthy kelp bed near La Conchita. Once ...

Last winter, a team of divers braved Tasmania's icy eastern waters on a mission to help save the region's spectacular giant ...

Kelp is essential to oceans, providing a habitat for numerous marine life and keeping the ocean clean by trapping carbon.

Governor Bill Walker tried Alaska's first kelp-based beer during a recent swing through Kodiak. The beer was created at the Kodiak Island Brewery using local kelp from Kodiak Island Sustainable ...