Vanishing Kelp: Warm Ocean Takes Toll on Undersea Forests
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Herald and News] By Associated Press - August 23, 2017
When diving in the Gulf of Maine a few years back, Jennifer Dijkstra expected to be swimming through a flowing kelp forest that had long served as a nursery and food for juvenile fish and lobster.
But Dijkstra, a University of New Hampshire marine biologist, saw only a patchy seafloor before her. The sugar kelp had declined dramatically and been replaced by invasive, shrub-like seaweed that looked like a giant shag rug...
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