A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast ...

California's network of marine protected areas, including those off the Channel Islands, could see changes. Here's what to know.

Nearshore species include black, black and yellow, blue, brown, calico, china, copper, gopher, grass, kelp, tree fish and olive rockfish. From April through December we enjoy a good representation ...

In ideal conditions it can grow nearly half a metre a day. Like forests on land, a kelp forest is structurally complex. It provides a variety of habitats for many species. Here, blue rockfish navigate ...

Other, shallow water rockfish that are not found in the deep will now be available for targeting, including black, black and yellow, blue, brown, calico, China, copper, gopher, grass, kelp ...

A research team at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has identified kelp for all of its positive economic and environmental contributions. “Kelp is, I call it, a kind of Swiss Army Knife of ...

OAKLAND, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to grant Endangered Species Act protection to bull kelp, which faces grave threats from climate change and coastal ...

The mission marks another step forward in a sprawling, multi-institution effort dedicated to recovering the species that scientists didn’t realize were key for maintaining healthy kelp forests ...