{"id":3504,"date":"2016-04-21T11:08:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/?p=3504"},"modified":"2017-02-08T13:17:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:17:12","slug":"rockweed-habitat-manure-or-bovine-viagra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/2016\/04\/21\/rockweed-habitat-manure-or-bovine-viagra\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockweed: Habitat, &#8220;manure&#8221; or bovine Viagra?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Rockweed\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-105x79.jpg 105w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-317x238.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-634x476.jpg 634w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-846x635.jpg 846w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-951x713.jpg 951w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/02\/Rep_Asco_LD_6_11_04_2-1268x951.jpg 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ascophyllum nodosum<\/em> &#8212; more commonly known as rockweed &#8212; is\u00a0an intertidal seaweed that grows along our rocky Maine coast. This innocuous-looking brown alga serves\u00a0as habitat and food for more than one hundred species of fish, crustaceans, and birds. It is also harvested for human food, fertilizer, and other value-added products. Currently, rockweed harvest is a hot topic &#8212; should the rockweed\u00a0industry and ecology\u00a0be managed? Is access to the intertidal zone across private property legal?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellsworthamerican.com\/opinions\/rockweed-habitat-manure-bovine-viagra\" target=\"_blank\">Dive into these questions and more in this Ellsworth American\u00a0column by Tom Walsh of Gouldsboro.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/coastal-observers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interested in\u00a0being part of an effort to learn more about rockweed? Click here to learn about our <strong>Coastal Monitoring Program<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ascophyllum nodosum &#8212; more commonly known as rockweed &#8212; is\u00a0an intertidal seaweed that grows along our rocky Maine coast. This innocuous-looking brown alga serves\u00a0as habitat and food for more than one hundred species of fish, crustaceans, and birds. It is also harvested for human food, fertilizer, and other value-added products. Currently, rockweed harvest is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":52,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":52,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3504\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/signs-of-the-seasons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}