Week 8 Lectures Lectures week 8. Seaweeds are found near shore, and provide food for many forms of benthic animals. Nori production in Japan is a billion dollar industry. The California Sea Grant program fosters research on the use of all forms of ocean resources.
Wetlands provide valuable breeding spaces for many marine species.
These areas are fragile , and need societal protection. Habitats in the sea are quite varied, providing protected or at least living areas for species from shrimps to whales . Estuaries are formed by either the geological processes that formed them, or by the dynamics of the freshwater and saltwater mixing and circulation within. San Francisco bay is a techtonic estuary. Chesapeake Bay is a drowned river valley.