Growing seaweed to save the coast

Marine protectors: Woo showing the seaweed and the sea cucumber which it feeds on.

GEORGE TOWN: Growing a type of seaweed (called caulerpa racemosa) along the coast of newly reclaimed sites is vital to draw marine life back to their habitat.

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Marine Invertebrate Systematic and Biodiversity lecturer Dr Abe Woo said the seaweed, commonly known as sea grapes, can be found in Penang.