The coast of Northern California is home to underwater forests – huge, sprawling tangles of brown seaweed. Kelp forests play a similar role in the oceans as the one that ordinary tree forests play on land. Like trees, kelp absorbs carbon emissions and provides critical habitat and food for a wide range of species.
One doesn’t have to travel far in Downeast Maine to see what over-fishing can do to coastal villages and the people who work there. First the cod disappeared, then the herring, and finally the sardines.
