A research team led by Prof. Pang Shaojun from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), along ...

A seaweed harvest at a kelp farm in Rongcheng in the Shandong Province of China. VCG/VCG via Getty Images When considering how to regulate the seaweed industry to mitigate potential climate ...

The China Ocean Economic Development Index, which gauges nation's ocean economic development, rose to 125.2 in 2024, up 2.3 ...

While he still casts his traps on occasion, farming kelp by hand and selling it as snacks and seasonings has become his main focus. Although China, Indonesia, South Korea, and the Philippines still ...

In China and Korea, where seaweed farming first developed into a larger industry, governments provide kelp seed to farmers for free or at a subsidized cost. The lack of state support in the U.S ...

In China, the seed string cost-to-yield ratio is similar ... the state is home to the country’s first commercial kelp farm and boasts world-class scientists at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean ...

are improving the scalability and productivity of kelp farming. Coastal nations such as China, South Korea, Norway, Canada, and the United States are investing in kelp aquaculture infrastructure ...

In July 2018, China slapped a 25% punitive tariff on ... “The lobstermen who were farming kelp had a fallback and were making up to $80,000 in the season,” Jesse Baines, the company’s ...

“Often times, the people concerned about scale will show you a picture of farms in China ... seaweed farming area in Maine,” said Briana Warner, CEO of Atlantic Sea Farms, a kelp aquaculture ...

In 2022, China, the leading producer of finfish ... In Norway, for example, one farm is growing salmon and kelp in the hopes that the kelp will absorb nitrogen and other nutrients expelled by ...