Northern California’s Kelp Forests In Danger, Impacting Larger Ocean Ecosystem | NBC Nightly News
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- There’s an ecological crisis off the coast of Northern California: Purple sea urchins are invading and destroying kelp forests on the seabed. Climate change and other factors have allowed the urchins to flourish, putting countless other species, which rely on kelp forests, at risk.» Subscribe to NBC News: nbcnews.to/Subs...
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Northern California’s Critical Kelp Forests In Danger, Impacting Larger Ocean Ecosystem | NBC Nightly News
You guys are so behind in this news. This is been happening a long time ago. I was there three years ago. Purple urchins were already taking over the kelp. Abalon is gone because kelp is their food.
CA will do nothing
Thank you NBC News for bringing light to this environmental crisis that is worse than the Tubbs fire that burned down my home of 38 years and 6000 other homes and businesses. Please let that sink in on how serious this crisis is. For five years we in the diving community raised the red flag declaring the harbinger of things to come. We predicted the death of not only the kelp but abalone, fish and our coastal biodiversity that is so important to the coastal culture. We begged to allow the 40,000 divers an opportunity to protect what we love by hammering urchins surrounding surviving kelp and abalone to save the seed stock. In doing so we contribute to the Coastal community preventing many from going out of business like what is now occurring. We ask the State to hire unemployed red urchin divers devastated by the purples to clear areas in deeper water to promote kelp growth and with it the fish nursery. We ask the State to recommend to our Universities and Small Innovative Business to begin R&D into drones and robotics to smash, perforate , vacuum up or otherwise mitigate urchins. Year, after year after year the people’s desires and recommendations were rejected while the State did nothing except watch the death spiral and write white papers. Last year the State capitulated and allowed divers to remove urchins by hand, bag and drag them to shore sometimes swimming 1/4 mile for disposal into a landfill. This process is not only inefficient but dangerous to divers. Hammering is up to 20 times more efficient and far safer for divers. It is a proven technique but not allowed by the State of California. Now that 99% of the abalone are dead and much of the biodiversity along with it, time is running out but the urgency to remediate is superseded by more and more studies. California can take the worldwide technical lead in this ecological death spiral by turning it around, but we fear it will continue to be an academic exercise. Generations of people will mourn the death of a culture from inaction by our ecological stewards. We must get “woke” on this environmental crisis before the seals, sea lions, sea birds and even the sea otters begin starving to death in masses. This is more important than removing plastic straws, potential oil spills or even tangle whales because this is happening now in a massive event under the waves from California, thru Oregon, to Alaska, Japan. Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Tasmania, Chile and other coastal regions. This is a war we must fight and win if we have the will to do so.
Fish and wildlife knew it was a problem when we the public wanted to help but they put a limit on the take of the non native invasive species. Finally after we have mass barron kelp beds they make it a no limit take. Should have never had a limit.
Thanks Josh... For all your hard work.
Oh my 90% this is seriously catastrophic
That’s why we need the Japanese
No climate change here.........
Those purple sea urchins are great to eat. Very expensive in the restaurants.The are hard to find in Italy.
No, it is not the purple urchin that is desirable. The red urchin produce the desirable uni, and they are not as prolific as the purple.
@@lauradell2be You are right. YUMMY!!!
Everything in California is in danger.
I would say, worldwide. 😢
I would say, world wide!
No Australia has the dangerous stuff California is a wholesome gentle place where most of the us's crops are grown
Bring back the sea otters to Northern California...and they'll rebalance the ecosystem.
That or bring in the Japanese…. Lol
Academic report on this came out in 2015-16... it's been going on for a while. The starfish population crash happened several years before that. "OXYGEN" folks!
What about a fence to keep them out? They seem to walk. Maybe something they can't get over but something other creatures could.
Stop cutting the kelp state needs to stop cutting it out.
Sea otters, male sheepheads, and humans can help cull the majority of these to numbers more stable. Also they are delicious.
In Italy sea urchins are almost extinct because we ate them all. In Spaghetti ai Ricci di Mare
We need more Patrick Star’s.
The voice in the party not told me to blow deck
Goodbye kelp.
Imagine a scientist trying to explain this to Trump. 😕
Imagine the NBC not cutting the part where California regulates how many sea urchins can be removed.. I'm shocked. NBC allowing that one fact, really shocks me. California at it finest at destroying the environment..
Isnt CA run by Dems? LOLOLOL
@@dankcik09 100% look at what Nancy Pelosi did to her city of San Francisco. Smash as many urchins as you can.
2 comments? really?
Lie kelp in Pleasure Point tons of it saw it today where surfed
Sea urchin tastes great though.
Too many sea urchins ? I though it a rare sea creature.
The book of Revelation tells us what happens to the Oceans.... We are in for a seriously tough time.
Isn't this important I mean the people need air an clean water to survive but we as people keep pushing an if we push to far for the all mighty dollar We all can die is this our reality is this what we're working towards it seems like it
What would Jesus do?
I love this!! The end times. Yeeeess !!!!!!!
good job!
sike
Alternative title for this video: "Thriving Sea Urchins Help Demonstrate That There's No Climate Emergency".
did you not watch the video
Barbie For Life do you not think for yourself?
@@alvagoldbook2 smooth brain
Bunch of fake news 😂😂😂😂😂😂