Responsibility
Efforts are under way in India to harness the potential of seaweed by integrating seaweed farming with fisheries.
Innovation & Investment
Cascadia Seaweed, a British Columbia-based climate-action company, will test its kelp forest-restoration technology this summer off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Responsibility
Current deacidification techniques are limited to bench scale, highlighting need for sustained R&D before implementation is possible.
Responsibility
Nofima scientists aim to expand knowledge of potentially toxic elements in cultivated sugar kelp and wild-harvested kelp and seaweed.
Responsibility
Emphasize effective, implementable actions against ocean acidification, linking seaweed physiological changes with production costs and profits.
Intelligence
Interest in industrial seaweed applications is driving demand for biofuels, bioplastics, textiles, animal feed, cosmetics, fertilizers and more.
Innovation & Investment
The Alaska Mariculture Cluster has won nearly $49 million in grants to support Alaska's big-potential mariculture industry.
Intelligence
Seagriculture, the first international seaweed conference, covers all angles of seaweed farming for food, energy and climate change solutions.
Intelligence
The Scottish Association for Marine Science says the Seaweed Academy will advise start-ups, train workers and aid business development.
Responsibility
Despite the dangers to shellfish posed by ocean acidification, a forward-thinking California oyster farm is producing oysters resistant to climate change.
Intelligence
There are environmental benefits from regenerative ocean farming but its success hinges on establishing community-driven business models.
Responsibility
A pilot project led by the Aquaculture Association of Nova Scotia has shown first-year success for cultivating kelp on shellfish leases in Nova Scotia.
Responsibility
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the World Wildlife Fund will test sugar kelp strains and measure the yield and quality of new strains.
Responsibility
A report from The Nature Conservancy shows restorative or regenerative aquaculture can benefit ecosystems, marine animal habitats and biodiversity.
Intelligence
Kelp aquaculture is poised for growth on both U.S. coasts, but one grower network in Maine is building a brand and demand for domestic seaweed.
Aquafeeds
An evaluation of the effects of fresh seaweed diets and manufactured feeds on growth and gonad quality of adult, wild collector sea urchins.