Underwater forests that support our area's local ecosystem are failing. Researchers and volunteers are racing to figure out what's going wrong. FOX13
It’s an emergency unfolding out of sight, beneath the waves of Puget Sound. Underwater forests that support shellfish, fish, crabs and everything up the food chain are disappearing, and scientists don’t have clear answers why.It’s an emergency unfolding out of sight, beneath the waves of Puget Sound. Underwater forests that support shellfish, fish, crabs and everything up the food chain are disappearing, and scientists don’t have clear answers why.
Peabody’s nonprofit is teaming up with the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation to track the plight of kelp forests around the Sound. Scientists know that climate change and pollution play a role, but there are unanswered questions that could help researchers understand how to reverse the trend. On a cool Saturday morning Deb Halley, a volunteer diver, met up with FOX 13 News at Saltwater State Park in Des Moines. She, along with roughly a dozen other divers, were undergoing training with Reef Check Foundation. They will be the eyes on the ground, or in this case, underwater.
Her instructor, Reef Check’s Dan Abbott, said it’s a dire situation. He compared it to visiting a national park after a forest fire has ravaged the land, or trees have been clear-cut overnight.
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