Atlantic Sea Farms, a seaweed farming company in Biddeford, doubled its harvest from last year and has more “partner farmers” and retail outlets than ever. This year, the farmers harvested 1.3 million ...

ST. GEORGE, Maine (WABI) - Maine leads the nation in seaweed farming. There are kelp farms located across Casco Bay and along the Midcoast. Keith Miller of South Thomaston is a pioneer in kelp farming ...

Sean Den Adel and Skye Steritz operate Noble Ocean Farms out of Cordova. (Photo courtesy Mark Titus) Sean Den Adel and his fiance Skye Steritz live in Cordova and are among a handful of small-scale ...

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On Thursday evening, a small, underwater farm in Gowanus celebrated its first harvest. The crop, 20 pounds of dried kelp, was stored in burlap sacks hanging from the rafters of an old, disused barge.

Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game didn’t always pay much mind to how people used the kelp that washed up on Cook Inlet beaches. “We assumed that it was like somebody going to the ...

New England Kelp Harvest Week is coming to Southeastern Connecticut for Earth Day. Kelp is a seaweed that grows naturally in the waters of Long Island Sound. It has many environmental benefits, and ...

A kelp harvest in Harpswell Sound in mid-June grew out of research conducted by Marie Caspard ’20, through both Marine Science Semester work and an independent study investigating the ocean ...

A growing seaweed industry based on the production of alginate, a thickener used in the food, textiles and pharmaceutical industries, has driven a boom in harvesting of kelp off the coasts of Chile ...

California has access to an abundance of seafood, but that access will be restricted for this seafood delicacy until 2036.