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Seaweed is lifted out of the top of an algae scrubber/cultivator, to be discarded or used as food, fertilizer, or skin care. Alginates are used in industrial products such as paper coatings, adhesives, dyes, gels, explosives and in processes such as paper sizing, textile printing, hydro-mulching and drilling.
Sargassum is a genus of brown macroalgae in the order Fucales of the Phaeophyceae class. [1] Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs, and the genus is widely known for its planktonic (free-floating) species.
Brown algae (sg.: alga) are a large group of multicellular algae comprising the class Phaeophyceae. They include many seaweeds located in colder waters of the Northern Hemisphere. Brown algae are the major seaweeds of the temperate and polar regions. Many brown algae, such as members of the order Fucales, commonly grow
A giant "blob" of sargassum seaweed measuring 5,000 miles wide — twice the width of the continental United States — is headed for the Florida coast and already covering beaches with algae that ...
Ahi limu poke: raw fish with limu. Limu, otherwise known as rimu, remu or ʻimu (from Proto-Austronesian *limut) [1] is a general Polynesian term for edible plants living underwater, such as seaweed, or plants living near water, like algae.
Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) bloom on Lake Erie (United States) in 2009. These kinds of algae can cause harmful algal bloom. A harmful algal bloom (HAB), or excessive algae growth, sometimes called a red tide in marine environments, is an algal bloom that causes negative impacts to other organisms by production of natural algae-produced toxins, water deoxygenation, mechanical damage to ...
Pyropia is a genus of red algae in the family Bangiaceae. It is found around the world in intertidal zones and shallow water. The genus has folding frond-like blades which are either red, brown or green. Some Pyropia species are used to create nori, and are thus important subjects for aquaculture.
Seaweed cultivator; Seaweed farming; Seaweed fertiliser; Seaweed fuel; List of brown seaweeds of South Africa; List of brown seaweeds of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay; List of green seaweeds of South Africa; List of green seaweeds of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay; List of red seaweeds of South Africa; List of red seaweeds of the Cape ...