In the 1980s, so much kelp washed onto beaches west of Brighton that the “unsightliness” of the seaweed and the flies it attracted made it a problem worthy of . Farmers took the abundance of washed-up brown algae for fertiliser. Locals talked of the “kelp problem”. Today, the problem is too little kelp, says Mika Peck at the University of Sussex, UK.
Kelp matters because it , provides a nursery for fish and a buffer against coastal flooding. While climate change has played a role in…
Article amended on 17 August 2021
We have corrected the length of the ban on nearshore trawling
