Bull kelp provides food and shelter for salmon, Southern Resident orcas, sunflower stars, pinto abalone, rockfish, harbor ...

In a healthy kelp forest, there would be about 4 per square ... Mr Breschkin collects a rock from the sea floor and brings it to the surface, showing off a healthy kelp plant growing on it.

The specimens that wash up on beaches have detached from the ocean floor. Puget Sound has lost about two-thirds of its bull kelp forests, according to PDZA. Now, a bill before Washington state ...