On Nantasket Beach in Hull, state workers removed 300 tons of seaweed this season.(Tom Herde for The Boston Globe)
Scituate, public works director Albert Bangert was philosophical about the seaweed glut, though, noting that Irish immigrants came to Scituate in the mid-1800s to make a living harvesting seaweed. The “moss’’ industry flourished for about 100 years, with seaweed hauled from the ocean, dried, and shipped out for use in such things as fertilizer, beer, cough syrup, toothpaste, and pudding.
“Now we see it as an inconvenience,’’ he said. Attitudes have “changed; nature hasn’t.’’ Full Story
