Seaweed is found in everything from food and cosmetics to gardening products and packaging.
Despite establishing the site at Porthallow, for now the company's core focus relates to its shore-based harvesting."That's really still the main business," van Berkel said."There's five, six, other seaweeds that we harvest ... from the wild, from the shores, which is going on year round."
In 2020, a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. described seaweed farming as being"dominated by countries in East and Southeast Asia."generated $14.7 billion in"first-sale value" in 2019. The U.S. is also home to a seaweed farming sector, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stating there are now"dozens of farms" in waters off New England, Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
While there are concerns related to permitting in some parts of the U.S., the industry there has expanded in recent years, with the NOAA calling it the"fastest-growing aquaculture sector." It's not all been plain sailing, however."Global production of farmed aquatic algae, dominated by seaweeds, experienced relatively low growth in the most recent years, and even fell by 0.7 percent in 2018," the FAO's report noted.An aerial view of a site used for seaweed farming in waters off Bali, Indonesia.
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