It’s low tide around North Uist, a remote island off the West Coast of Scotland. Dark tendrils of seaweed lie glistening on the rocky shore, and a lone figure in orange waders moves methodically ...
In the final year, the pilot successfully added the native red seaweed Gigartina atropurpurea at trial sites near mussel farms off the Coromandel coast. The project involved growing fertile ...
Seaweed farming was first introduced in Kenya in 2008 and has expanded rapidly to cover 20 villages, David Mirera, a scientist at the Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), said.
It’s producing tonnes of seaweed to help fill increasing demand as new benefits of the plant are discovered, one of which could be as a replacement for some plastics. Coast 4C is different ...