Restoration Projects:

Project
Hammerfest
Testing quicklime application and efficacy and then removing sea urchins at a large scale to restore kelp forest.
Project
Hammerfest
The objective of restoration was to establish a new substrate/habitat on a sandy bottom outside a sea urchin barren for kelp establishment, and supporting associated macrofauna and juvening fish.
Project
Porsanger
Testing quicklime application and efficacy and then removing sea urchins at a large scale to restore kelp forest.
Project
Tromsø
The aim of this study was to investigate whether kelp may recover if the abundance of urchins is reduced in a small-scale pilot study. This could provide value by using the profitable commercial harvest of urchins to restore the valuable ecosystem services of kelp forests.

Organisation Type

Government

Location

Oslo

Species:

Alaria esculenta

Saccharina latissima

Methodologies:

Added Substrate - Artificial Reef

Excluded Grazers

Sea Urchin Culling - Quicklime

Sea Urchin Removal

Restoration Projects:

Project
Hammerfest
Testing quicklime application and efficacy and then removing sea urchins at a large scale to restore kelp forest.
Project
Hammerfest
The objective of restoration was to establish a new substrate/habitat on a sandy bottom outside a sea urchin barren for kelp establishment, and supporting associated macrofauna and juvening fish.
Project
Porsanger
Testing quicklime application and efficacy and then removing sea urchins at a large scale to restore kelp forest.
Project
Tromsø
The aim of this study was to investigate whether kelp may recover if the abundance of urchins is reduced in a small-scale pilot study. This could provide value by using the profitable commercial harvest of urchins to restore the valuable ecosystem services of kelp forests.