When collecting seaweed, selectively cut or thin. Do not take all the seaweed in one area. If rocks are left bare of seaweeds or covered with cut stipes, important habitat is destroyed. Very few seaweeds are able to regenerate from the stipe alone. Many small animals live at the base and on the holdfast, so to provide continued habitat and protection, the lower portion of the frond should not be harvested.
Alaria marginata, an olive…