Save Our Shoreline Jersey, which has spoken out on the need to tackle the Island’s seaweed problem in St Aubin’s Bay, recently met visiting students from a school of environmental sciences in Brittany.
As part of their studies, the students spend time in Jersey, where they learn English at St Brelade’s College, which is a few hundred yards from St Aubin’s Bay.
Each year the build-up of green sea lettuce prompts debate on how to deal with the problem.
The sea lettuce makes large sections of the bay look unappealing, and concerns have also been raised about the creation of noxious gases when large quantities of the seaweed decompose.
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