Why do they harvest kelp?
If you make a list of the largest plants, it will certainly include the tallest trees. Chances are, you would never think of adding a seaweed to your list of giant vegetation. But you should. The seaweed called kelp happens to belong in the group of world’s largest plants. There are many varieties of kelp seaweeds and the biggest of them cluster in underwater groves off our Pacific shores. Some types are 200 feet long and specimens of even 260 feet have been dragged up from their watery homes. However, the kelp is not harvested alone. As a rule, it is dragged ashore with a large assortment of other seaweeds. For the ocean, like the land, has a large variety of plant life, and all or most of these other plants are also useful items in the seaweed harvest. The massive kelp just happens to make up the bulk of the ocean crop. Kelp and other seaweeds have been used to fertilize the farms of France and Ireland, England and Scotland for centuries. As well as being the name for a seaweed,~the
