Eelgrass Restoration Project Gets U.S. Funds
A project that aims to restore a historic eelgrass bed in a section of Anacapa Island known as Frenchy’s Cove has won about $32,000 in federal funding, officials announced Friday.
Eelgrass grows in beds and in shallow bays and lagoons, supporting complex food webs, filtering nutrients and stabilizing sediments in the water. In California, eelgrass beds are nurseries for commercial fish.
The eelgrass on Anacapa Island was devoured by sea urchins after the El Nino-generated storms of 1983 inflated their populations.
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