THE PLANTLIFE AQUATIC

xquisitely beautiful, diverse, colourful and every bit as interesting as the plantlife above ground, seaweed in British waters rivals anything you’ll find in a tropical coral reef. Yet I remember when I was kid growing up in Falmouth on Cornwall’s south coast, people seemed to be very negative about seaweed. It would be thrown ashore by the waves of autumn storms, pile up on the beaches and rapidly start to rot down, becoming slimy and smelly. Given time, however, the rotted seaweed