https://hakaimagazine.com/features/banking-on-the-seaweed-rush/
"Offshore from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, a team hauls up a line laden
with meter-long fronds of sugar kelp (
Saccharina latissima), a floppy, brown
seaweed with crinkled edges. The harvest from Cascadia Seaweed, a kelp farming
company founded in 2019, has over the years made its way into a
seaweed-enriched “sea spice” condiment mix and a host of trial snack products
including protein puffs and tortilla chips. Now the company is focused on
processing its seaweed into animal feed and soil additives—anything that will
help kelp make the world a better place.
Seaweed farming has a long history in Asia, and now it is spreading around the
globe. Over the past 30 years, according to the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), world production of seaweed has
boomed more than sixfold to over 35 million tonnes, with emerging markets in
the Americas (particularly the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Maine), Europe,
and Africa. The most recent numbers, tallied from 2019, show that North America
produces some 23,000 tonnes of wet seaweed (referred to as wet tonnes by the
industry) per year. Cascadia claims to be the largest cultivator in Canada,
with a production of 50 wet tonnes in 2022, and aims to become the largest in
North America with a projected harvest of 200 wet tonnes this spring and plans
for expansion. Farms, small and large, are popping up fast: while hard numbers
are difficult to come by, Alaska, Maine, France, and Norway have all reportedly
more than doubled their seaweed production since 2018, with each region now
cranking out hundreds of tonnes per year."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-global-malaria-lgbtq-warriors-river-albania/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
