The five-day festival runs Oct. 8-12 in Fort Bragg and Mendocino. It celebrates the coast’s bull kelp forests, most of them lost since 2014, and the people trying to bring them back.
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Urchin-smashing off to strong start this year with 30 recreational divers at Caspar Cove
Divers taking a hammer to purple urchin is just one piece of the goal to bring back the bull kelp: “We’re still struggling to acquire multi-year funding for restoration work at large.”
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Urchin diver spots another sunflower sea star north of Noyo Harbor
The pycnopodia sighting brought “a bit of hope to a gloomy situation,” as diver Grant Downie said he’s been discouraged by low kelp numbers and not many viable red urchins.
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“Curious World of Seaweed” now on display at the Grace Hudson Museum
The exhibition will include an opening reception as well as expert talks.
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‘A healthy ocean means a healthy fleet’: salmon, crab, kelp, and climate the focus of annual fisheries forum
The 49th Annual Zeke Grader Fisheries Forum highlighted many voices of California’s marine ecosystem.