They've had success with growing individual plants, but now a team of scientists is taking on a new, far more ambitious underwater project — starting with spreading baby kelp across 7,000 square metres off the Tasmanian coast.
Marine ecologists Scott Bennett and Cayne Layton, along with a team of Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) researchers, spent time in the depths of the Tasman Peninsula last month with the goal of planting enough giant kelp along the reef to cover one-and-a-half football fields.
