This was a presentation given at a seaweed harvesting workshop at Marine and Coastal Management in 2004. It looked at the harvesting of South African kelp resources and potential problems that were occuring in 2004.

1. HARVESTING OF SEAWEED RESOURCES IN PARTICULAR KELP FORESTS: MCM seaweed harvesting workshop 2004 D. V. Robertson-Andersson

2. HARVESTING OF SEAWEED RESOURCES IN PARTICULAR KELP FORESTS:  MANAGEMENT  PROBLEMS  CONCLUSION

4. Laminaria predominates along the northern reaches of the West Coast. Ecklonia beds found further south.

12. Potential Problems Seaweed Research Unit

19. Bed size + 12 km Californian kelp beds and management MBNMS, 1999

22. (Rob Tarr 1993)

23. CONCLUSIONS Present management of harvesting strategies of all species is good Splitting up of the seaweed resources should not occur to the detriment of present harvesters. Seaweed and in particular kelp needs to be treated as a separate fisheries, which its own management structure, as at present it is considered low priority given its size in relation to fisheries. However given the secondary conversion from fodder to abalone feed and the increase in demand it has the possibility of becoming a larger fishery.

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