Macroalgae

NOAA’s Sea Grant will fund six new research initiatives on aquaculture, seafood diets, coastal ecosystems and emerging contaminants in New Hampshire.

SeaStock Pty Ltd, with support from researchers at Australia's Flinders University, has begun to sell a seaweed-based livestock supplement that can reduce enteric methane emissions by more than 90 percent.

Though seaweed operations are diverse – specialising in various species and operating in different economic circumstances – today’s macroalgae practitioners need to stay grounded in science as they work towards their sca…

A Dutch startup is planning to integrate aquaculture of seaweed and bivalve shellfish into floating breakwaters – simultaneously protecting fragile coastlines, providing ecosystem services and potentially producing seafo…

Twelve innovative solutions, projects and tools for blue carbon markets are getting technical support from Friends of Ocean Action and UpLink as part of the Blue Carbon Challenge.

A new study from Argonne National Laboratory in the US shows that carbon emissions stemming from ethanol production can be used to cultivate algae – which can then be used to create biofuel.

As part of its efforts to drive the blue revolution, Sweden’s Nordic Seafarm has raised $2 million (SEK 20 million) in new capital to meet emerging demand for sustainable seaweed.

A new global study shows that shellfish and seaweed aquaculture yield powerful and profitable benefits to people and ocean ecosystems.

Despite only representing about 1 percent of global seaweed cultivation volumes, green macroalgae (Chlorophyta) could play a decisive role in the commercial seaweed sector as it expands and diversifies.

The European Commission, the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) and a consortium of sustainability consultants and algae organisations are launching EU4Algae, a European algae stake…

Scientists with Wageningen University are conducting in-depth research on the ecological effects of large-scale macroalgae farming and designing an efficient and sustainable protein production chain in the North Sea.

The developers of Neom, the futuristic city that is planned for the Saudi Arabian coast of the Red Sea, have unveiled plans to produce 80,000 tonnes of seafood through innovative aquaculture projects on the site.

With over 150 oil rigs being decommissioned in the Gulf of Mexico each year, Ivan Puckett and Kent Satterlee, two of the three founders of Blue Silo Aquaculture LLC, explain why they aim to convert as many rigs as possib…

After successful early research at Belfast’s Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS), livestock farmers throughout the UK will trial seaweed supplements to reduce methane emissions from animals.

Farming brown kelp (Saccharina latissima) or Royal Kombu can help safeguard the environment and when incorporated into the human food chain, can reduce the climate impacts of our diets.

Funding for a study to examine how shellfish and kelp reduce nitrogen pollution in Casco Bay has been awarded to Running Tide Technologies, a Maine-based ocean science and technology company.

The ability of methods including seaweed aquaculture to remove or sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide requires a $125 million research programme.

The funders of $5 million pilot kelp farming project in the Hauraki Gulf have attributed their vision to the success of GrennWave in the US.

A Scottish startup has received £125,000 from the Seafood Innovation Fund (SIF) to explore the benefits of using natural kelp structures as hides for cleaner fish on salmon farms.

Coastal communities across Alaska are supplementing their income by farming kelp, diversifying their economy beyond commercial fishing and tourism.