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It takes a stupid amount of labor to do it this way compared to big commercial aquaculture operations,” says Walker. Here, there are no electric pumps, plastic tanks, antibiotics, mechanical agitators, recirculated water, chemical additives or computer monitoring. And would-be farmers can’t pursue opportunities they don’t know about.
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. But the industry is at an inflection point. The credits sell for roughly $250 per ton, said Running Tide. Welcome is excited about seaweed’s potential.
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