From a Child's Drawing to Geotextile Underwater

The Irish Times published a story of an eight-year-old, Clodagh McIntyre, who won an award for a drawing she submitted to a fisheries-sponsored coloring contest. McIntyre’s drawing depicts fish struggling with lagarosiphon major, an invasive weed that has plagued Irish waters for the past five years. Geotextile matting is being studied as a possible solution to smothering the weed.