Some, like dulse, could be eaten fresh from the sea, but others, like badderlock, a seaweed used mainly for its stalk, were first cooked.
Rainwater drained from the hut roofs into tanks was sometimes tainted with salt and fragments of seaweed after gales.
Presently, there is disagreement on the effect of seaweed on yield.
Constraints on chemically mediated coevolution - multiple functions for seaweed secondary metabolites.
Foliar-applied seaweed and fish powder do not improve yield and fruit quality of organically grown processing tomatoes.
It can be very productive, but it is a fragile landscape which requires manuring with animal dung and seaweed to grow crops.
The commoner fishes are well illustrated, and there is a reasonable summary of the invertebrate animal groups and seaweeds.
Several authors16,26 argue that seaweed extract is not an effective means of increasing yield.