Tropical invasion Plant-eating tropical fish species are causing serious damage to algae and kelp forests in sub-tropical and temperate regions around the world, an international team of experts warn.

Tropical fish with a voracious appetite for kelp are staking claims in the warming waters of eastern Australia’s temperate coral reefs and stripping ecologically-important kelp forests. A team, led by ...

Fish are like underwater gardeners, fertilizing the coral reefs, kelp forests and seagrasses where they reside. Their fertilizer of choice — their own pee. But, fish communities are facing many ...

Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game didn’t always pay much mind to how people used the kelp that washed up on Cook Inlet beaches. “We assumed that it was like somebody going to the ...