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  2. Seaweed - Wikipedia

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    The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that world production in 2019 was over 35 million tonnes. North America produced some 23,000 tonnes of wet seaweed. Alaska, Maine, France, and Norway each more than doubled their seaweed production since 2018. As of 2019, seaweed represented 30% of marine aquaculture. [26]

  3. Seaweed farming - Wikipedia

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    The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that world production in 2019 was over 35 million tonnes. North America produced some 23,000 tonnes of wet seaweed. Alaska, Maine, France, and Norway each more than doubled their seaweed production since 2018. As of 2019, seaweed represented 30% of marine aquaculture. [6]

  4. Algaculture - Wikipedia

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    The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that world production in 2019 was over 35 million tonnes. North America produced some 23,000 tonnes of wet seaweed. Alaska, Maine, France, and Norway each more than doubled their seaweed production since 2018. As of 2019, seaweed represented 30% of marine aquaculture. [64]

  5. Opinion: Seaweed is nutritious, not slimy. Eating it could ...

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    Beyond food production, seaweed offers a host of other environmental benefits. It has been used to create alternatives to plastic packaging that are biodegradable and compostable, and even edible .

  6. Marine primary production - Wikipedia

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    The organisms responsible for primary production are called primary producers or autotrophs. Most marine primary production is generated by a diverse collection of marine microorganisms called algae and cyanobacteria. Together these form the principal primary producers at the base of the ocean food chain and produce half of the world's oxygen.

  7. Kelp forest - Wikipedia

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    Kelp forests occur worldwide throughout temperate and polar coastal oceans. [1] In 2007, kelp forests were also discovered in tropical waters near Ecuador. [4] Global distribution of kelp forests. "I can only compare these great aquatic forests ... with the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions. Yet if in any country a forest was ...

  8. Edible seaweed - Wikipedia

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    Edible seaweed, or sea vegetables, are seaweeds that can be eaten and used for culinary purposes. [1] They typically contain high amounts of fiber. [2][3] They may belong to one of several groups of multicellular algae: the red algae, green algae, and brown algae. [2] Seaweeds are also harvested or cultivated for the extraction of ...

  9. Seaweed fertiliser - Wikipedia

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    Seaweed fertiliser (or fertilizer) is organic fertilizer made from seaweed that is used in agriculture to increase soil fertility and plant growth. The use of seaweed fertilizer dates back to antiquity and has a broad array of benefits for soils. Seaweed fertilizer can be applied in a number of different forms, including refined liquid extracts ...