SEA CHANGE
Think about farming and it’s likely that tractors, muddy fields and wellies spring to mind. Yet all along the UK coastline you’ll find farmers in waders and yellow oilskins heading out to tend their ‘herd’. On rugged coastlines and in picturesque historic fishing villages, marine farms nurture produce from seaweed to shellfish to fill our plates with local food.
Aquaculture – the farming of aquatic plants and animals – is described as a sustainable alternative to the ‘hunter-gatherer’ approach of fishing our seas, which has led to a decline in fish stocks and other marine life over the past few decades, as well as an ever-changing and growing list of species to avoid fishing or eating. It’s been practised
