AR-News: (UK) Seaweed invasion endangers marine life

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

April 4, 2004 15:24
It looks like a shiny brown foxtail floating in the water around the southern 
shores of England and it is colonising our coastline faster than any other 
invasive seaweed. 

Now Japweed looks set to infiltrate the coastal waters off Suffolk and 
Norfolk - bringing damaging consequences to the ecosystem.

The Japweed, an olive-brown branching alga that originates from seas around 
China and Japan, is well equipped to multiply and spread.

First spotted in English waters around the Isle of Wight in 1971, the seaweed 
has spread up as far as South Wales to the west and the Essex estuaries to 
the east.




full story:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?datetime=04+Apr+2004+15%3A24&tbr
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