
Towns along the Costa Tropical, Salobreña amongst them, have requested assistance from the Provincial Council to deal with the extra cost of removing Asian seaweed from their beaches.
The Asiatic seaweed, Rugulopteryx Okamurae (Dictyotales, Ochrophyta) is an invasive species and is beginning to cause a lot of headaches along our coastline.
The ecologist association, GENA-Ecologistas en Acción, has spent years documenting all the invasive animal and plant species in Axarquía.
Readers will remember that a couple of months back Motril fishermen discovered an invasive species of Asian seaweed in their fishing grounds – now it has appeared off Almuñécar.
The University of Granada has confirmed that the seaweed found off La Rábit is indeed of the Asian variety that is causing problems near Cádiz.
Fishermen came across a strange ‘catch’ in their nets off La Rábita on Wednesday – a mass of seaweed looking like a kind normally found in the Pacific.