The Green, Green Seagrass of Home?

Seagrasses are the only flowering plants growing in marine environments. Seagrass meadows (large accumulations of these plants) provide vital habitat for many marine species e.g. seahorses. These meadows are also important carbon sinks, removing and storing atmospheric 'greenhouse gases'. They consequently reduce global heating. The UK has lost 90% of its seagrass meadows. A half disappeared over the last 30 years. A project in SW Wales, is now nurturing and growing 2 seagrass species. Eel grass (Zostera marina) and Dwarf eel grass (Zostera nolti) are cultured in tanks, fed with seawater from Carmarthen Bay. Tens of thousands of mature plants have been produced. 1500 have been sent to North Wales and the Solent, to re-establish seagrass meadows there (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/02/welsh-seagrass-nursery-marine-meadows). Re-establishing the seagrass meadows seems and excellent idea. It will only work, however, if the areas selected are maintained free of pollution and bottom trawling.