A new economic modeling tool is helping Maine kelp farmers identify cost-saving strategies with remarkable precision. By ...

Employees check a line ribbon kelp, or Alaria marginata, in March at Seagrove Kelp’s Doyle Bay Farm, six miles outside of Craig, Alaska. State regulations require kelp farmers to gather seed from at ...

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Sean Den Adel and Skye Steritz operate Noble Ocean Farms out of Cordova. (Photo courtesy Mark Titus) Sean Den Adel and his fiance Skye Steritz live in Cordova and are among a handful of small-scale ...

Paddling their boat in a creek inlet in Greenpoint, Shanjana Mahmud and Luke Eddins, volunteers with the Newtown Creek Alliance, headed to a series of yellow buoys. Against a background of the piles ...

The smell of the ocean and the boom of loud upbeat music filled the Barnacle Foods warehouse as employees donned hairnets and used large kitchen knives to slice away at the thick and tubular bull kelp ...

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Alaska is home to many remote communities in coastal, arctic and subarctic environments. The difficulty of transporting food to many of these areas means that food insecurity is a huge issue.

SAINT GEORGE, Maine (WMTW) — Maine leads the nation in seaweed farming. Kelp farms are located across several areas off Maine’s coast, including Casco Bay and the Midcoast. Keith Miller of South ...