Under the ice, it looked pretty much as it might in the UK, with lots of kelp and spider crabs, but the visibility was stunning. |
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In the late 1700s, the abundant seaweed or kelp provided an important source of income. |
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I submerge straight away to get out of the slosh and follow a compass bearing over the shallow kelp and into the Ore Stone. |
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On land penguins also have a number of enemies which include leopards, caraculs, kelp gulls and mongooses. |
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Other commonly used seaweeds are wakame and kombu, which are types of kelp. |
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Apart from algae, perhaps we can also bioengineer seaweed or kelp for the same purpose in aquatic fuel farms. |
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Unlike kelp and other seaweed, sea grasses are descended from terrestrial plants, which adapted to shallow non-rocky coastal waters. |
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Flocks of terns and cormorants fished offshore, while fronds of kelp writhed in the surf like the flailing arms of sea monsters. |
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Below us the seabed was strewn with small boulders and overgrown with beds of brown kelp. |
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One group is studying kelp gulls, south polar skuas and sheathbills and another group is studying Adelie penguins. |
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Kelpfish use their colour and acting skills to blend in with the leaves of kelp. |
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They are most commonly seen as solitary individuals, but on occasion they appear in sizable aggregations, frequently near floating kelp. |
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The area also offers rock walls, kelp beds and fish species such as lumpfish and wolf fish. |
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There are seals and porpoises, thick kelp forests, colourful corals, and large wolf fish. |
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It is a juvenile kelp klipfish, Clinus rotundifrons, one of the rarer klipfishes. |
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Below them goatfish, wrasses and scorpionfish frolicked amongst the kelp holdfasts. |
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When resting or sleeping, sea otters float on their backs and wrap themselves in kelp to keep from drifting. |
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Near Australia, catsharks have been observed inhabiting ledges and caves, seagrass or kelp beds, coastal reefs, and both sandy and rocky bottoms. |
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Pink shrimps and flatfish abound, and brightly coloured juvenile lumpsuckers stick to the kelp fronds. |
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The divers visit a small skerrig surrounded by a kelp forest with nudibranchs, comb jellyfish and sea butterflies. |
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Compounds of iodine are also present in sea water and in sea kelp, a form of seaweed. |
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Go through and out the other end to where the bottom shelves up steeply into the kelp zone. |
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Under water, the shingle beach shelves down to rows of small rocks and kelp beneath the low-water mark. |
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A velvet swimming crab then dashes out of the shadows, grabs the shore crab's trophy and vanishes back under the kelp. |
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This may have supported a strong, fleshy lip with which Thalassocnus grazed seagrass or kelp, much like manatees and their sirenian relatives. |
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Tegner's main scientific research focused on the ecology of kelp forest communities and nearshore marine resources. |
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Without sea otters, urchins overgraze the kelp, eating the base of the plant so that it becomes detached from the sea floor and dies. |
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Where sea otters are present, the urchins are limited by otter predation and kelp forests are abundant. |
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Closely related species in the Atlantic may be referred to as oarweed or more loosely as kelp or wrack. |
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The wreckage is at its cleanest in spring and early summer, before the kelp gets a grip on the exposed steelwork. |
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At the base of the kelp stipes you might find little clusters of dark sea-grapes, or a clutch of white, lozenge-shaped egg sacs. |
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For example, Konbu-irichii is a regional dish in which shredded kelp and pork are stir-fried. |
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We mix kelp or healthful herbs into the feed whenever we can afford to and also use herbs to relieve symptoms when a bird is sick. |
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Settling near a hungry snail could be disastrous for a peanut worm, and landing too far from kelp would doom a sea urchin to starvation. |
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In even shallower water, the kelp cover thickened and small pollack and codling darted around, snapping at particles in the water. |
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All plankton, kelp forests and seagrass beds are found in the euphotic zone. |
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Only tiny phytoplankton are found throughout the area, although intertidal zones in the south contain kelp beds. |
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Juvenile rockfish that reside in kelp beds are often eaten by many fishes and other marine animals. |
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Marine extracts, such as bladder-wrack, kelp and Irish moss provide iodine which stimulates thyroid function. |
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The real reason for the rich pong of two-day-old kelp is the little barnacles and other creatures rotting. |
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This includes various seaweeds such as kelp or dulse, certain mineral salts such as sodium sulfate and certain plants. |
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We finned out into the light of the sandy bottom to the side of the pier for eelgrass, kelp and a much more open feel. |
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Kelp greenling are a common fish in rocky and kelp areas from central California north, but few are taken on piers south of San Francisco. |
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An individual male kelp greenling may guard up to 11 egg masses simultaneously, although the average number is four. |
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The leopard shark forages in the kelp forest, in the surf zone, and in shallow embayments and estuaries. |
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They are found dispersed among some rocky bottom areas, but are largely found along the California coastal reefs and kelp forests. |
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Choose an unpolluted bit of rocky coast and collect a variety of weeds such as kelp and wrack, boil for 15 minutes and add to the bath water. |
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The sea bed was covered by fronds of kelp which swayed to and fro in the water, grabbing our legs as we began our course around the pier's outer edge. |
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I apply an organic fertilizer high in trace elements and kelp. |
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To kick off the 4-month plan, I started Gail on a botanical thyroid formula combining coleus, bladder wrack, guggul, kelp, ashwagandha, Siberian ginseng and Chinese skullcap. |
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The valued molluscs are fed hand-harvested kelp and some compounded seaweed diet, and are graded at regular intervals over the farming period of 36 to 40 months. |
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The predominant feature of the shoreline is the rocky cliffs, extending under water to encompass a lush kelp forest, submarine reefs and offshore seamounts. |
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Under boulders live other fish, including large ling and many codling, while above the kelp line pollack shoals can cloud the brightness on a sunny day. |
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You may also want to eat iodine-rich foods like kelp, nori, and other seaweeds as often as once a day, and fish and shellfish two or three times a week. |
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You go out diving and swim through a kelp forest, which is the sort of thing you associate with temperate coasts, and then you're suddenly in a coral bed. |
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For other species you should look closely at the kelp and purple sea lettuces, where you will often find various exotic-looking examples in the process of mating. |
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Giant kelp and seaweed are common, especially in intertidal zones. |
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We grasped kelp to anchor us, so as not to be taken out in the backwash, and clambered over its slimy fronds to the jumble of boulders that constituted the beach. |
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White barnacles, blue-black mussels and red seaweed can also be found as well as pink corraline algae and a band of kelp which includes oarweed and dabberlocks. |
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Big female cuckoo wrasse, pollack, several bib and a John Dory were all I could see, although my view was slightly obscured by several fronds of kelp. |
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We were not the only large mammals in this forest, and would sometimes catch a glimpse of a doe-eyed, bewhiskered face peering at us through the kelp. |
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Marine life includes sea lemons, lingcod, kelp greenlings, silvery pile perch, wolf eels and even decorated warbonnets with spikes on their heads. |
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British Columbia's nutrient-rich waters support a multitude of life including kelp forests, nudibranchs, anemones, wolf fish, king crabs and giant octopus. |
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I would return to feed you black hanks of kelp from each fist. |
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Ocean sunfish are most commonly observed several miles offshore, but on occasion may be seen closer inshore around oilrigs and drifting kelp paddies. |
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The minnows had appeared in early May, clinging to the cover of the kelp until they had grown venturous enough to strike out for the deeper water. |
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These delicate fish are poor swimmers, but use their leaf-like appendages to help them blend into the algae and kelp surrounding them for protection from predators. |
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And our southern waters are incredibly diverse with beautiful sea dragons and hand fish and over a 1000 different varieties of colourful kelp and algae and amazing fish. |
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In Britain, the only local source of alkali was from kelp, which washed ashore in Scotland and Ireland. |
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Pure Health Thyroid 5 supports a healthy thyroid gland and contains a unique blend of bladderwrack, kelp, selenium and L-tyrosine. |
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Besides the prey groups mentioned for kelp bass, the diet of barred sand bass were sipunculids, cumaceans, and echinoderms. |
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Species with cool-temperate affinities, such as painted greenlings, kelp greenlings, and cabezon, were among the species that declined. |
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A comparison of the effects of kelp and crude oil in sediments on the colonization and growth of benthic infauna. |
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I make my own seedling mix, starting with coir and either compost or vermicompost, plus a few supplements such as kelp meal, rock powders, etc. |
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In a healthy kelp forest, red sea urchins feed on the abundant algal drift produced by Macrocystis pyriferia and other laminarians. |
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Algae, macroalgal, and kelp, such as oarweed and laminaria hyperboria, and species of maerl are found as well. |
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Bath salts, soap with soothing sea kelp and a loofa sponge by the bath will put all tensions to rest. |
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When kids play their movies, eels slither through the kelp while electric rays skim across the ocean floor to the sound of the waves above. |
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In Hoonah, Prince William Sound and Bristol Bay, some harvesters go after Macrocystis kelp after herring have spawned on it. |
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Normal seaweeds such as kelp, mayweed, bladderwrack and sea oak are all to blame. |
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Underwater, there are communities of kelp, soft corals, sea firs, anemones and sponges. |
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While snorkeling, the students explored sea caves, swam through kelp forests and photographed sea animals and plants. |
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During this period, burning kelp briefly became a mainstay of the islands' economy. |
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Most of those working in the kelp trade were crofters, with not enough land to make a living. |
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The potato famine followed shortly after the collapse of the kelp industry. |
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But the economic collapse of the kelp industry in northern Scotland led to further emigration, especially to North America. |
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Other major issues that threaten kelp include marine pollution and the quality of water, climate changes and certain invasive species. |
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Some animals are named after the kelp, either because they inhabit the same habitat as kelp or because they feed on kelp. |
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The ecology of maerl habitats has received very little attention in contrast to other marine ecosystems such as kelp forests or sea grass beds. |
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Plants such as kelp and algae grow in the water and are the basis for some underwater ecosystems. |
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The highly productive kelp forests over rocky marine shallows may have been a lure for coastal migration. |
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Others feed on macroscopic 'plants' such as kelp, rasping the plant surface with its radula. |
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Tar balls or pieces of tar in small numbers are found in the kelp and on the beaches. |
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Giant kelp forests surround the islands and act as a source of nutrition and protection for other animals. |
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Tests show that alginate, found in sea kelp, can suppress the digestion of fat in the gut, News. |
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Each spring, locals take a lesson from the Native Tlingit and go down to the beach to eat herring eggs straight off sea kelp. |
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The kayak, as it glides with ease over the wiry kelp, is effective at getting anglers into position for a catch without getting caught up. |
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However, the upper parts of the island were interspersed with nests of kelp gulls and Peruvian diving-petrels. |
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In the first method the whole 'head' of the kelp sporophyte is cut off between the bulb at the top of the stipe and the primary blade. |
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Population densities vary by habitat, with more dense populations in barren areas as compared to kelp stands. |
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Scallops can be found living within, upon, or under either rocks, coral, rubble, sea grass, kelp, sand, or mud. |
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There are species fisheries worldwide for finfish, mollusks, crustaceans and echinoderms, and by extension, aquatic plants such as kelp. |
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This can help with camouflage when the cuttlefish becomes visually similar to objects in its environment such as kelp or rocks. |
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As top level feeders in the kelp forest, harbor seals enhance species diversity and productivity. |
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The sea otter may pluck snails and other organisms from kelp and dig deep into underwater mud for clams. |
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Sea urchins graze on the lower stems of kelp, causing the kelp to drift away and die. |
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Loss of the habitat and nutrients provided by kelp forests leads to profound cascade effects on the marine ecosystem. |
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North Pacific areas that do not have sea otters often turn into urchin barrens, with abundant sea urchins and no kelp forest. |
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What was previously a kelp forest becomes an urchin barren that may last for years and this can have a profound effect on the food chain. |
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The kelp life cycle involves a diploid sporophyte and haploid gametophyte stage. |
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Giant kelp can be harvested fairly easily because of its surface canopy and growth habit of staying in deeper water. |
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Commercial production of kelp harvested from its natural habitat took place in Japan for over a century. |
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Between the 1950s and the 1980s kelp production in China increased from about 60 to over 250,000 dry weight metric tons annually. |
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In the late 18th century the harvesting of kelp became a significant activity but from 1822 on cheap imports led to a collapse of this industry throughout the Hebrides. |
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Intertidal archaeological surveys in recent years have brought hundreds of sites to light, including fish traps, tidal mills, kelp walls and harbours and landing places. |
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The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp. |
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The sand was a beautiful gold colour and completely unlittered by kelp or shells, suggesting to me that the waters around Kauai cannot be very productive. |
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In great amount, kelp ash can be used in soap and glass production. |
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Among the subjects she has chosen to go on display are a sea turtle, otters, a white tip shark, a coral reef, a kelp forest, a lion fish and a sea snake. |
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In contrast, in the presence of an actively foraging predator, juveniles are highly avoidant and hide in cobble or in kelp if cobble is unavailable. |
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Sea otters live in protected areas, such as rocky shores, kelp forests, and barrier reefs, although they may reside among drift ice or in sandy, muddy, or silty areas. |
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Archaeological evidence from California's Channel Islands confirms that islanders were harvesting kelp forest shellfish and fish beginning as much as 12,000 years ago. |
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It is understood that the algae product is a dried meal made from Ascophyllum nodosum, a seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean, also known as Norwegian kelp or bladder wrack. |
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Overfishing nearshore ecosystems leads to the degradation of kelp forests. |
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The kelp is harvested by using a device to see under water, called a hydroscope, to peer at the ocean floor attached to a pole which is twisted to cut off the kelp. |
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The role of sea otters in maintaining kelp forests has been observed to be more important in areas of open coast than in more protected bays and estuaries. |
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DeMartini's study of kelp perch supports this conclusion, as do several other studies of embiotocid species, which have revealed similar aggressive behavior in males. |
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