Innovation & Investment
A new economic analysis reveals a $149 million potential for the emerging Nova Scotia kelp farming and product sector.
Responsibility
¿Cómo puede el cultivo de kelp ayudar a resolver los desafíos globales? Un panel de expertos en algas discutió las promesas, las dificultades, y las lagunas de conocimiento.
Responsibility
How can kelp farming help solve global challenges? A panel of seaweed experts discussed promises, pitfalls and knowledge gaps.
Responsibility
Nofima scientists aim to expand knowledge of potentially toxic elements in cultivated sugar kelp and wild-harvested kelp and seaweed.
Responsibility
The water-filtering abilities of kelp farms could help reduce marine pollution in coastal areas, according to a new study.
Innovation & Investment
Sea urchin aquaculture venture Urchinomics has opened a sea urchin-ranching site in Nagato, Japan, in partnership with seafood processor Maruyama Suisan.
Innovation & Investment
Maine-based Running Tide uses carbon-capture and oyster farming techniques – using both low and high technology – to restore ocean health.
Intelligence
Atlantic Sea Farms CEO speaks on blue foods and climate-change adaptation at World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Intelligence
U.S. scientists released KelpWatch.org – a digital map of kelp forest canopy that will be instrumental in ecosystem restoration.
Responsibility
KelpRing has received funding to explore the possible benefits of installing kelp forests within salmon pens to benefit cleaner fish.
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.
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.
Responsibility
Researchers are growing kelp seedlings on ‘green gravel’ and then scattering them on the ocean floor, where they’ll hopefully anchor and flourish.
Aquafeeds
Study assesses kelp and maize meals as nucleation sites of biofloc formation and tests the products’ effect on the performance of Nile tilapia fingerlings.
Aquafeeds
Study evaluated the effect on Atlantic salmon smolts growth performance when adding abrown seaweed meal (from Laminaria sp., or kelp) to their feed.
Responsibility
Cultivadas durante cientos de años, las algas marinas (el kelp de azúcar, específicamente) son el fruto de una naciente industria acuícola en los EE. UU. que suministra a los chefs, cocineros caseros e inspiradores productos alimenticios frescos y congelados.