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The Kelp Business is Booming. How Big is Too Big?

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

Now seen as a “future-proof” material, seaweed is a hardy, fast-growing protein source useful for everything from biofuel to petroleum-free plastic to consumer goods like utensils , soap , clothing , and of course, food. Now, they’re managing a 5-acre sea farm in Englishman Bay and cultivating thousands of pounds of kelp in the process.

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Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

While the North American seaweed industry remains tiny by global standards — 95 percent of farmed seaweed comes from Asia — it is the fastest-growing type of aquaculture in the United States. Costly attempts to develop algae-based biofuels haven’t panned out. But the industry is at an inflection point. he asked. “Is

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The Kelp Business is Booming. How Big is Too Big?

Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

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