Kelp

New England Kelp Harvest Week is coming to Southeastern Connecticut for Earth Day. Kelp is a seaweed that grows naturally in the waters of Long Island Sound.

The Shinnecock Kelp Farmers received $75,000 from The Nature Conservancy to help expand their Indigenous-run kelp farm and hatchery in Shinnecock Bay on eastern Long Island.

A new study finds kelp could reduce the effects of ocean acidification on Long Island.

A study by Christopher Gobbler, a marine biologist at Stony Brook University, found that shellfish growing around kelp develop five times faster than shellfish without it.

New York joins other states in setting up a commercial kelp farming industry. WSHU’s Higher Ground podcast takes a behind the scenes look.

Interest in growing...and eating kelp…has spiked in Connecticut. But farmers in the state are not yet turning a profit on the burgeoning industry.For one,…

There are forests of kelp in the Atlantic Ocean off southern New England. And some of the forests are in trouble. That’s according to a team of…

A Suffolk County pilot program to grow kelp had its first successful harvest this week.The Cornell Cooperative Extension grows kelp on the East End to see…