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FERTILISER running into the Island’s streams, reservoirs and out to sea should be cut by at least 25 per cent to comply with EU standards, a scrutiny report has found.

THE trial of a sea lettuce harvester has been postponed after one of the two machines was destroyed in a fire on a French beach.

PLANS to trial and potentially buy a giant sea-lettuce-collecting machine are a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction by the States to a problem that is getting worse every year, an environmental lobby group has said.

A SCALED-down version of a machine used in France to collect sea lettuce could be perfect for Jersey, the chairman of the Jersey Farmers’ Union has said.

BOLD new proposals to tackle Jersey’s growing sea lettuce problem, which would involve cutting huge troughs and ridges into St Aubin’s Bay, have been unveiled today.

INDEPENDENT testing is being carried out on a sewage outflow pipe in St Aubin’s Bay by an environmental lobby group who fear it is the main cause of the sea lettuce blooms.

A FRENCH machine which it is hoped will collect the sea lettuce which blights St Aubin’s Bay each year is due to be brought to Jersey in September for a week’s trial.

A MACHINE equipped to collect sea lettuce from the shoreline could be bought as early as next year, regardless of whether it can be trialled in the Island, the Infrastructure Minister has said.

REPRESENTATIVES from the States are due to travel to France on Monday to look at a potential method of alleviating the Island’s sea lettuce problem.