Seaweed: marine life coming ashore

Industry has long harvested some of the 700 seaweed species in British waters, but are large-scale algae farms on the horizon?

British seaweeds are among our most underrated resources and hugely important for the ecology of the seas, but they get nothing like the recognition that, say, a wild meadow or ancient woodland gets.

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