Tag Archives: pollution and overfishing
Divers hammer thousands of urchins to save Palos Verdes Peninsula kelp forests
In one nine-hour day this week, longtime fishermen Terry Herzik and Gary 
Thompson smashed more than 10,000 purple sea urchins on the floor of a cove off the Palos Verdes Peninsula. But that’s just a drop in the bucket. Read more here 11:49
Saving Striped Bass (It sounds so dramatic!)
By June, the fish will be racing through these waters on the way to coastal New England as part of their northern migration, a biological spectacle akin to the movement of salmon on the West Coast. But with the striped bass population in decline, competition for the prized catch has intensified between recreational and commercial fishermen, setting up a showdown over a fishery that generates, according to one study, several billion dollars a year. Read more here
