ST. GEORGE, Maine (WABI) - Maine leads the nation in seaweed farming. There are kelp farms located across Casco Bay and along the Midcoast. Keith Miller of South Thomaston is a pioneer in kelp farming ...

A skiff used to harvest kelp off Kodiak Island, pictured in 2017. The waters of Southeast Alaska are an ideal environment to grow species ranging from Pacific oysters to ribbon kelp. But growing them ...

Atlantic Sea Farms, a seaweed farming company in Biddeford, doubled its harvest from last year and has more “partner farmers” and retail outlets than ever. This year, the farmers harvested 1.3 million ...

Lacking natural predators and able to survive long after food sources are diminished, purple sea urchins are devastating kelp forests, an important carbon sink. The founders of a Newport startup have ...

Seaweed and kelp are eaten by both humans and domestic animals all over the world. Several species are used in everything from cosmetics and food additives to fertilizers and medicines. However, ...

CRISTA 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. THEY CULTIVATE THEIR CATCH ...

Kelp plants grow on a 30-foot-long, white PVC pole suspended in the water. If this is successful, instead of just one row, there would be a whole platform, hundreds of meters across and hundreds of ...

In late April, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police announced that they had issued a citation to a group for harvesting seaweed near Sekiu on the Olympic Peninsula. Taking some seaweed ...