But in order to grow the industry, Cordova’s kelp farmers need a way to process seaweed locally. Prince William Sound has experienced five fisheries disasters since 2016, in part because of ...

“Kelp farming simultaneously shares characteristics with farming (on land) while also being very different,” Scheer explains. ... Once the system is up and running, it will be able to process several ...

Kelp is on the way: After a pandemic setback, mariculture farming is on the rise — and could help combat climate change. Self-help-kelp. by Clarise Larson; Friday, July 15, 2022 7:47pm ...

Bren Smith, who started the regenerative ocean farming company GreenWave, writes in his book Eat Like a Fish that anyone with $20,000 and a boat has enough to start harvesting 10 tons of kelp per ...

The kelp farm faces local opposition amid the county’s review process. "Part of the process after the permits are issued is that people can appeal that ruling, which a local group did," Spranger ...

Kelp doesn’t require external inputs such as feed or fertilizer to grow, it doesn’t require fresh water or land, and it doesn’t produce methane emissions. But while seaweed farming is growing, getting ...

Rescuing Kelp Forests Through Science Breakthrough genetic research at a Massachusetts lab could save the world’s vanishing kelp forests—and support American kelp farming, too. The Hard Work of ...

In 2016, Washington's first commercial seaweed farm broke onto the scene. It was the result of unprecedented collaboration between local tribes, state agencies, marine researchers, and local ...

The process of photosynthesis allows kelp to take in so much carbon dioxide from the surrounding water that it is shown to reduce local effects of ocean acidification, ... a kelp farm in Cordova.

On Thursday evening, a small, underwater farm in Gowanus celebrated its first harvest. The crop, 20 pounds of dried kelp, was stored in burlap sacks hanging from the rafters of an old, disused barge.

With a 50-year history of harvesting wild seaweed, Maine has quickly become the largest U.S. producer of farmed kelp, harvesting just under 1 million pounds, or 453 wet tons, in 2022, up from just ...