The World About Us (1967 - 1987): Forest in the Sea
(1983)
Off the coast of California, amid the towering fronds of the giant kelp - the largest and fastest growing seaweed in the world - sea-otters, urchins, fish, abalones and countless other colourful and bizarre marine creatures are engaged in a fight for existence. They struggle not only among themselves but with those who attempt to find a living there as fishermen.
When that forest kelp began to disappear, urgent rsearch began to reveal an intriguing natural history of a forest essential for fisheries but also harvestable for algin, that essence of smoothness in our foods, toothpaste and paints, and which may be farmable in future for energy - methane gas sufficient for the whole of the United States.
