Building the "carboy" delivery systems and harvesting sori

Today was a very busy and rewarding day for volunteers working with Help the Kelp. This morning team members assembled five carboy delivery systems that look like this.

We also managed to harvest more than 200 sori from a wide range of Bull Kelp in the False Narrows area.

And tested one of the carboys - and it worked like a charm!

Here's what the harvest looks like right now. It is being dried out for about 36 hours, and some of the sori were pre-treated with iodine.

On Monday the team will deploy these devices in the Clark Bay area pending a successful survey of the bottom structure. Approximately 40 sori - a mix of treated and untreated - will be stuffed into each carboy. The theory here is that when put back in the water, the sori will release spores and hopefully build a rich canopy next year.

A BIG THANKS TO THE VOLUNTEERS AND TO THOSE WHO DONATED MATERIAL.