The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. They're a thicket of colossal algae intermixed with a pageant of life that includes snails, urchins, sea lions, sea otters ...

From Connecticut to Maine, New Englanders are producing kelp products and cooking with invasive species like green crabs to preserve marine life and sustain seafood favorites like lobster rolls.

Kelp forests are vital to capturing carbon and are instrumental in fighting climate change. Left unchecked, sea urchins can decimate kelp forests. Sea otters themselves have faced their own battle.

“It’s like a party of kelp-crab acrobats climbing ropes in a Cirque du Soleil performance,” Hurley says. The crabs appear to vanish in the winter months.

There's a rallying cry at various bays and beaches up and down the West Coast; it's "Help the kelp!" The towering brown seaweed with the floating bulb on top is in steep decline. That's alarming ...

An inspection revealed 62 Dungeness crabs (3 female, 1 soft shell, 57 undersized, and 1 legal male), along with 2 undersized red rock crabs and 3 kelp crabs.

The kelp forests that hug the Pacific coastline are an underwater jungle. ... "And sometimes there's a crab or some other fossil in these rocks.

To reduce whale entanglements it makes sense for crab trap lines to mimic kelp. As any surfer can attest, kelp always lets you go. A wave crashes and sends you spinning in a kelp bed, the kelp hang… ...

In a single week, a gillnet lost near the San Juan Islands killed: one harbor seal, 68 red rock and kelp crabs, 30 spiny dogfish sharks, 25 sockeye and five chinook salmon, 30 rockfish, 40 kelp ...

Meanwhile, about those pesky yet delicious green crabs: Wulf’s, which sells direct to consumers, features them for $13 per 3-pound bag. Recipes featuring green crabs are available on Wulf’s ...

Salomé Buglass discovered an unexpected kelp forest while studying underwater mountains in the Galapagos. Kelp—a type of seaweed—usually grows in shallower, cooler areas. So why was an entire ...

"Those grew for a little while,” Hurley said. “But then we suspect that kelp crabs really enjoyed eating those tender young kelp fronds." The Puget Sound Restoration Fund has reported some ...