Angus MacDoughall has been harvesting seaweed on and off since he was 17 when his fishing work dried up. Now at 73, he still harvests three to four days each month.

For example, the new estimates assumed that farming space could be found within the most productive waters for seaweed in the equatorial Pacific, around 200 nautical miles off the coast.

Its new factory located close to the farm processes 300 kilograms of seaweed per hour, turning it into dry flakes. These flakes are easy to store, transport, and use in food products.

The Seaweed Company grows Atlantic wakame, sugar kelp and ulva for human consumption on a 50-hectare farm in Irish waters and on a 3-hectare farm in Dutch waters.

Two companies have applied to create two new seaweed farms off the north Cornwall coast, ... Another 1 sq km (247 acres) seaweed farm has been approved between Port Quin and Port Isaac.

Imagine a huge seaweed farm the size of Croatia floating in the South Atlantic between Africa and South America. Spinning in a natural ocean eddy, it sucks a billion tonnes of carbon out of the ...

The Seaweed Company grows Atlantic wakame, sugar kelp and ulva for human consumption on a 50-hectare farm in Irish waters and on a 3-hectare farm in Dutch waters.

The Irish government seeks to develop large-scale industrial seaweed farming off the Atlantic coastline. ... If you want to post a public comment, you can do that at the bottom of the page.

Seaweed farms are a far cry from the rows of corn and wheat that make up monoculture farming on land. But even as they signify new opportunities, they present ecological risks, many of them unknown.

Biome Algae Ltd and Camel Fish want to harvest seaweed in Port Quin Bay, near Port Isaac as a sustainable alternative to animal feed and fertiliser. The proposed farm would cover around 250 acres ...