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Rescuing Kelp Through Science

Civil Eats

Many growers see it as a bottleneck: Propagation from wild-harvested seaweed is costly, lengthy, and ties rural coastal communities to laboratories that are often hours, if not days, away. It also shortens the seaweed growing season, as sorus tissue can only be harvested for a few months of the year. According to the U.N.’s

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The Case for Seafood Self-Reliance

Civil Eats

But the discrepancy is by design, says Joshua Stoll, associate professor at the University of Maine and founder of Local Catch Network , a hub of seafood harvesters, businesses, researchers, and organizers that supports the growth of community-based seafood. A healthier system more reflective of the diversity of U.S. Alaska drives the bus.

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The Bounty Between the Tides

Modern Farmer

Alanna Kieffer sautees seaweed on a portable grill just yards from where we had harvested it. Photography by Elena Valeriote Kieffer leads visitors on tours of the Oregon coast, where she harvests and then prepares a meal with wild seaweed and shellfish right on the beach. Harvesting wild mussels.

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The Hard Work of Bringing Kelp to Market

Civil Eats

That day, they’d been out to their four-acre farm and back twice, harvesting a total of 6,300 pounds. Maine is the heart of America’s farmed seaweed industry, supplying half its harvest— well over a million pounds —last season. Then they sell the harvest to ASF, which picks up the kelp on the dock. Transportation is one.

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The Future of Seaweed Farming in America

Civil Eats

Seaweed farms on both coasts are beginning to take hold, tapping into decades of painstaking science—and could help shellfish thrive in waters affected by climate change and pollution. Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back. Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

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Can Seaweed Save American Shellfish?

Civil Eats

She points out that most of the shellfish she harvests these days have been seeded manually by the town of Southampton and local universities, “almost like a science project,” she says. Volunteers help to hand-harvest the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers 2023-2024 sugar kelp haul on New York’s Shinnecock Bay. That’s not right.”

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Transforming the Baltic and North Seas with Algae-Based Solutions

Food Tank

AlgaeProBANOS wants to help businesses sustainably harvest algae, market it, and sell it to populations. Algae also offer environmental benefits: The organisms can capture carbon dioxide from the environment, acting as a carbon sink , according to the Carbon Capture Science & Technology journal.

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