AVALON — Plans to build an experimental kelp cultivation system just off the shore of Catalina Island is slated to be debated by the quasi-judicial California Coastal Commission later this month, with the University of Southern California’s Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies and Marine BioEnergy Inc. hoping to carry out...
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It would seem far smarter to harvest the non-native and highly invasive alga Sargassum horneri that has impacted the waters off Catalina. S. horneri is already used for biofuel and other purposes in its native Asian waters. Its presence here in SoCal has greatly altered the native kelp forest ecosystems in very harmful ways.