As closures and financial losses mount, Bay Area organizations have cut back on staff or science.
What Happened to Commercial Crab Season?
December 3, 2019 •
Why couldn’t I buy live crabs this Thanksgiving? Whether or not you choose to use your carnassial teeth for their intended purpose, eating Dungeness crabs (Metacarcinus magister) is something of a regional tradition around the holidays. A “crab feed” is … Read more
Photo Essay: The Vegan Trout
July 10, 2019 •
Fish raised on farms generally eat their ground-up oceanic cousins. A farm in Susanville is trying to change that.
Sea Creatures Store Carbon in the Ocean – Could Protecting Them Help Slow Climate Change?
April 17, 2019 •
So far no policy has been created to protect carbon storage in the ocean, which is Earth’s largest carbon sink and a central element of our planet’s climate cycle.
The Eyes of the Sea Star
December 11, 2018 •
We’re used to bodies having front and back, top and bottom, left and right. But as some common California tidepool creatures show, there’s a totally different way of living.
For the Love of Seaweed
February 13, 2014 •
Josie Iselin’s passion for discovering natural treasures along the shore started young, and later evolved into her life’s work: turning ocean objects into art through her popular photography books. We spoke with Josie as she prepared to release her seventh … Read more