In my part of the country, seaweed was seen in the past as a great resource and the kelp industry was an important part of the local economy.
Kelp making was their only industry, and is soon as that failed they became miserably poor.
She sets aside land for drying the kelp and all that kind of thing, and gives the crofters every possible interest she can in the work which they perform.
We can talk about the problem of mines, kelp and the weather.
The royalty, where collected, is a charge per ton of manufactured kelp.
There is at present a keen demand for kelp by flax growers and manure manufacturers owing to shortage of potash.
I was further informed that there was no evidence that the pair trawlers were damaging what remained of the kelp beds.
The chief industries are agriculture, lobster fishing, and herring fishing; and there is a smaller industry, but an important one, kelp burning.
