"If the water temperatures rise, the nutrients are not going to be there as well, and kelp farming could collapse in the next 50 years," Lindell said. In an attempt to save this vital ocean ...

Large-scale offshore kelp farming could amplify a crucial function of kelp ecosystems: carbon sequestration. In a 2019 study, scientists found that farming just 3.8 percent of federal waters off ...

“We looked at a lot of different businesses, things like spirulina, or on-land-aquaculture, mushrooms, greenhouses, vertical farming,” Smet said. “And we thought that kelp was by far the ...

KITTERY, Maine (WMTW) — Seven months ago, Maine business partners Krista Rosen and Inga Potter were hauling in their harvest from their kelp farm off the coast of Kittery Point. Fast forward to ...

In recent years, the global kelp farming market has exploded; the global commercial seaweed market is projected to surpass $85 billion by 2026. Right now, roughly 90% of the seaweed sold in U.S ...

WITH SEA FARMING AND KELP. CHRISTA ROSEN AND INGA POTTER HEAD OUT FROM KITTERY POINT, MAINE, ANTICIPATING A HEALTHY HAUL. A LEISURELY TEN MINUTES FROM THE HARBOR, YELLOW BUOYS MARK THEIR GROW LINES.

Jon McGee of New England Sea Farms in Guilford said he harvested roughly 10,000 pounds of sugar kelp on his farm last spring, and he expects to grow roughly five times that volume this year.

A wiry man in his 60s, Lindell has developed relationships with homeowners and researchers across hundreds of miles of New England’s coast so he can access the kelp integral to his work—and, ...

The company partners with fishing families to farm kelp in Maine, Rhode Island and Alaska. It has expanded the supply of line-grown kelp as well as the market for its products, which the company s ...