Kale of the Sea
Gastropod
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The Role of Kelp in the Environment
In Scotland, Iona and her colleagues are testing out growing kelp alongside farm salmon. The seaweeds are removing what we call the inorganic nutrients from the waste. They assimilate that into their tissue and then you can remove that from the environment when you harvest them. Historically, seaweed was crucial to life in Northern Europe. People foraged or farmed it to supplement what they could grow,. And they put it on the land as fertilizer and they burned it as fuel.
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