Groups like the Watermen’s Alliance, Reef Check, the Nature Conservancy, CA Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Ocean Protection Council, Humboldt State University, Blue Harmony, California Sea Grant, and other local organizations and stakeholders have mobilized to work together to find possible pathways for human intervention in mitigating kelp loss caused by ocean climate change.
On May 10, 2018, an emergency, temporary regulation change went into effect, which increased the daily recreational bag limit for purple sea urchins from 35 individuals to 20 gallons, taken only while skin diving or SCUBA diving in state waters off Mendocino and Sonoma. Almost a year later, on February 25, 2019, the Fish and Game Commission adopted a regular rule-making change that increased the daily recreational bag limit for purple sea urchins from 20 gallons to 40 gallons, taken only while skin or SCUBA diving off Humboldt, Mendocino, and Sonoma state waters.
