Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.

Seaweed brought fishers, farmers, and scientists together. Trump tore them apart.

The motley crew of scientists, conservationists, and agricultural producers set out to begin in earnest. Spring was well underway in Hood Canal, Washington when the team assembled on the shores of Baywater Shellfish Farm, armed with buckets. Before them, floating mats of seaweed were strewn about, bright green clumps suffocating clams, geoducks, and other intertidal creatures while swallowing the gear laid out to harvest them.  Excess seaweed is…