Reseeding a half-hectare of seabed with microscopic giant kelp is a modest start to an ambitious aim: rebuilding an entire ecosystem
The giant kelp forests that flourished along the Tasmanian east coast had all-but vanished before most people realised they were gone.
Scott Ling watched them go. He learned to dive in them at Fortescue Bay, on the Tasman peninsula in the state’s south-east, in 1998.
