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Seaweed fertiliser is organic fertilizer made from seaweed that is used in agriculture to increase soil fertility and plant growth. The use of seaweed fertilizer ...
Sawtooth seaweed Platythalia quercifolia (R. Brown ex Turner) Sonder (Geraldton to Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia.) [1] Three-node seaweed Cystoseira trinodis (Forsskål) C. Agardh (Tropical Australia south to Victor Harbor, South Australia, and to Lake Conjola, New South Wales. Also Dunalley, Tasmania, and widespread overseas.) [1]
[citation needed] Seaweed-fertilizer also helps in breaking down clays. [citation needed] Fucus is used by Irish people as a biofertilizer on a large scale. [citation needed] In tropical countries, the bottom mud from dried-up ponds which contain abundant blue-green algae is regularly used as biofertilizer in fields. [citation needed]
Seaweed is an extractive crop that has little need for fertilisers or water, meaning that seaweed farms typically have a smaller environmental footprint than other agriculture or fed aquaculture. [16] [17] [18] Many of the impacts of seaweed farms, both positive and negative, remain understudied and uncertain. [19] [16]
Lessonia corrugata is a species of kelp, a brown algae in the genus Lessonia, commonly known as strapweed, common crapweed [citation needed], or Tasmanian kombu.It is a subtidal species endemic to Tasmania and southern Victoria, Australia, and is the least studied of the only three Laminarian kelps in the region. [1]
Bladder wrack is named for its conspicuous vesicles. Fucus vesiculosus, known by the common names bladderwrack, black tang, rockweed, sea grapes, bladder fucus, sea oak, cut weed, dyers fucus, red fucus and rock wrack, is a seaweed found on the coasts of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
CH4 Global has partnered with Clean Seas to grow A. taxiformis at Arno Bay, Australia, where it uses carbon and nitrogen waste from Clean Seas’ ocean-based fish farms as food for the seaweed. [22] In 2023 CH4 global reported its first commercial sale and intentions to feed the additive to 10,000 cattle. [23]
Fucoidan is a long chain sulfated polysaccharide found in various species of brown algae.Commercially available fucoidan is commonly extracted from the seaweed species Fucus vesiculosus (), Cladosiphon okamuranus, Laminaria japonica (kombu, sugar kelp) and Undaria pinnatifida ().