Ban on dredging saves pink seaweed maerl at Summer Isles

A ban on industrial shellfish dredging introduced a decade ago has protected the magenta-coloured seaweed species maerl around the Summer Isles in Scotland. Maerl forms hard, chalky nodules on the seabed and provides habitat for fish. Thanks to the ban, enforced by citizen scientists and activists such as Diyanna Ross and the Scottish Creel Fishermen's Federation, scallop populations recovered „like...