The sight of wild sea vegetables always fills me with a sense of delight.

The sculpin and the sea vegetables may be compared to comic valentines, which expose the recipient to ridicule.

Yet only the high-end restaurants (where it's now called sea vegetables) put it anywhere near their menus.

You can also get iodine by eating sea vegetables (seaweed) such as dulse, wakame, kombu, and nori.

Even today, this article tells us, an estimated quarter of Japanese food consists of one form or other of sea vegetables.

If so you would be tucking into a meal made largely of Irish sea vegetables, plants more usually known as seaweed.

It aims to give the viewer an insight into our marine heritage, teeming with marine mammals, fish, shellfish and sea vegetables.