3.5 Summary of Section 3

This section gave you a quick tour of the most commonly found interesting and engaging examples that you might encounter as a seaweed enthusiast or as seaweed practitioner. It provided you with an overview the important crops and their pests, and critically it highlights the emergent nature of knowledge within this area. As seaweed aquaculture becomes more important and a global industry the importance of these parasites within natural and farmed systems increases, as does our knowledge, including a better understanding of what we do not know. We hope you find the gaps as stimulating as what is known: we do!