IT was the trade whose boom and bust brought money then misery to thousands of crofters in the Highlands and Islands.
But now the west coast’s seaweed industry – whose collapse in the 1820s prompted a wave of Clearances – is being backed by the Scottish Government for a revival to help bolster fragile communities.
The Government’s Marine Fund Scotland has announced a £270,000 grant for a seaweed processing plant at Kyle of Lochalsh, intended to help seaweed farmers.
