A new initiative is opening up the conversation on fish welfare in Indonesia, where many farmers remain wary of a concept they fear could add cost and complexity to aquaculture.
Two young seaweed specialists at Greenwave Aotearoa are helping to connect kelp restoration, hatchery science and higher-value product development, as New Zealand’s emerging seaweed sector looks for both ecological and commercial models that can scale.
by Alison Smith
Communications and marketing lead,
EnviroStrat
Brandon Hargraves and Alaeddine Aichouch reflect on the constraints facing temperate seaweed-producing regions and argue that scalable tropical red seaweed will be central to meeting the sector’s growing biomass demands.
Drawing on new research into seaweed aquaculture and blue-carbon markets, Dr Ravi has created a regional framework to assess where seaweed farming could one day earn carbon credits and what is still needed to demonstrate net climate benefits in a form carbon m…