For most of Connecticut’s agriculture sector, the harvest has already concluded by this time of year. But for a new crop of farmers growing sugar kelp in the waters of the Long Island Sound, planting ...

Alaska’s newest kelp hatchery recently finished its first growing season in a mobile shipping container in Kodiak. The ...

GROTON - Parked near the shoreline at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus is a boxy white trailer that can easily be mistaken for a storage unit on wheels. But inside, researchers are ...

A new project is underway to restore kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel by removing sea urchins and selling them to restaurants or turning them into agricultural products. “It’s really been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clayton McGoldrick, seaweed lab technician for Connecticut Sea Grant, pulls a spool covered with sugar kelp blades from a tank ...